The Inebriated Past with Matt Christman (12/21/16)

Yairo Martis

My thoughts exactly.

Yairo Martis

Fuckin' excellent

Johannes Böttiger

Anybody know where the music is from?

Christopher Snape

this episode is fantastic ASMR

Illegal_Structures

Loved this episode! A really inspiring story. I'd love to hear more like this!

Essie

awesome episode!

Seth Gile

Listening to this for I think the 3rd time. More Matt solo bangers would be welcomed.

Jason Cripps

"goodbye" lmao

Kindrid Parker

Dude. When are you gonna do another?

Stuart

This was awesome. Cush needs his own podcast of just this shit

eh

What about the claim that a lot of the antislavery sentiment, especially from the American bourgeoisie, was actually intensely racist but in a different way? Jefferson is recorded as being theoretically against slavery even though he personally profited from it, but not due to humanitarian concerns but because he feared black people outnumbering the slavemasters would lead to social upheaval and threaten the European settler republic. The American Colonization Society's venture to "repatriate" African-Americans that eventually resulted in Liberia was founded on the same premise. A lot of public intellectuals active at the time of the Civil War took a similar position, with Whitman as an illuminating example as he managed to unite opposition to slavery with opposition to black citizenship and voting rights (and support for the war on Mexico, or that famous postwar poem celebrating Custer at his death). I guess what I'm trying to get at is that slavery can both be economically dynamic and run counter to the interests of Northern capital in the longer term, even if a large faction of genuine abolitionists existed and almost all progressive forces wound up on the side of the North.

Sean Dailey

Screaming Void

tong

<a href="https://youtu.be/petzEpX3_28" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">https://youtu.be/petzEpX3_28</a>

Justin Doescher

Yeah I'm not a huge fan of the Patreon app and the premium episodes aren't available on Stitcher either.

NeatHeteroDude

never bitch

Robert Sussland

I look forward to every episode. But also think that after a period of time you should post the paid ones -- say 3 months? I'd happily remain a grey wolf.

Chapo Trap House

No, that's actually people's cards jamming at the end of the month. Happens every month. In any case, we have a new premium ep coming tomorrow.

Stefan

Good shit

Andrew Jones

New EP stat, patrons are dipping

ah

Love the Monkey kung fun intro music

nom de guerre

This was really good, Matt.

alejandro sosa

Fuck it, get Yasha and let him go to town

Ilias

I agree. GET DOLAN OR AMES ON THE SHOW ALREADYYYY

Mathieu Debic

This episode ruled! I love the more academic take - it's good to see dirtbaggery AND left-wing erudition together in the same pod

Patrick Link

The radical impulse must have left him if he volunteered for the Prussian army for the 1870 war.

leedo

Drunk history but actually good

DonnieJepp

Sure, it's I Giorni Dell’ira by Riziero Ortolani

DD Krumholz

Incredible. Anyone know the song that played at the end?

Daniel

damn, matt got wasted.

mkepioneer

Love it, man

Justin Kolb

1848! Baden-Palatinate! Engels: Pardon me are you General Willich, sir?

Dan Nance

It's a half-assed answer, but the Civil War was both a struggle of capitalist expansion and of emancipation. World War II was an imperialist war, but it coincided with a new wave of revolution (China, Yugoslavia) and radical reform in the UK and the US. Not a clarifying solution...

Dan Nance

"The Lenz Papers" by Stefan Heym. Epilogue moves from 1848 to the Civil War. I guess authors have felt the way Matt does even if historians don't.

Dan Nance

Howard Fast would have agreed with the "new reading" for sure.

Bradford James Carter

John Dolan would be a way bigger get than Adam Curtis

David Jones

More airhorn

Justin Kolb

Add drunk Matt Karp for the next one.

John Hieronymus

a Chapo civil war jubilee collaboration with radio war nerd please!

Samuel Harvey

I ❤ solo eps! Great re-listening value on this one.

SwtT

Fuck yeah to all of this!

Nick Alcorn

You guys should do a civil war discussion show at least every few months. Both this and the Vast Southern Empire show were great

CDK

Any plans for Episode 69?

John Miller

Fucking dank. Love the solo show angle, and the left wing scholarship

Drunk Dalek

This was fun! More semi-random history bits, please. Also, Gen. Willich would have made a fine 1st president of the Gay Communist Gun Club.