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[#285] DIALECTICS OF IMPERIAL COLLAPSE, Part One: Ancient Greece w/ The Return of the Repressed

[#285] DIALECTICS OF IMPERIAL COLLAPSE, Part One: Ancient Greece w/ The Return of the Repressed

Update: 2025-12-06
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Dimitri and Khalid speak with Marcus (@Marcus_TROTR) from The Return of the Repressed podcast about class conflict, the slave mode of production, and dynamics of expansion and collapse in 1st millennia BC Greece.

Topics include: the rise of maritime city states out of the rubble of the Bronze Age Collapse, iron-forging as disruptive technology, questioning the class structure of this era and defining who the “aristocracy” actually were, intra-elite struggles between nouveau riche and “old money” landowner factions, the curious co-existence of free and slave labor, the slave mode of production’s rapid expansion during the so-called golden age of Athenian “democracy”, the rise of coinage via Philip II of Macedonia’s mercenary armies, Alexander’s construction of a vast Eurasian web of city states connected by “currency”, and more…

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[#285] DIALECTICS OF IMPERIAL COLLAPSE, Part One: Ancient Greece w/ The Return of the Repressed

[#285] DIALECTICS OF IMPERIAL COLLAPSE, Part One: Ancient Greece w/ The Return of the Repressed

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