143 - A.K. 47 - Who Needs the War? - Part 4

A.K. 47 - Selections from the Works of Alexandra Kollontai

Kristen Ghodsee reads the fourth section of Alexandra Kollontai's 1915 essay about World War I–"Who Needs the War?"–and looks for lessons applicable to the present day.
This translation is from a 1984 collection of Kollontai's writing published by Progress Publishers in the Soviet Union, which claims that the essay was written while Kollontai was in exile in Norway. She sent it to Vladimir Lenin (then in exile in Switzerland) who also edited it before publication. The final pamphlet was first published in 1916. It went into multiple editions and was distributed widely across Europe and Russia.
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Mentioned in this episode:
"How to do escapism in the Trump era," The New Republic
"The Other Great Depression," Le Monde Diplomatique in English, French, Spanish, Farsi, Bulgarian, and Esperanto
Anachoresis - withdrawal into the desert

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