John Reed
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Oct 19, 2026
George GallowayHOST
It is the place where the historic Congress of the Peoples of the East took place in the early 1920s.
George GallowayHOST
I have a very idealized idea of that Congress from the writings of John Reed, the author of Ten Days That Shook the World.
George GallowayHOST
I don't like to speak against Baku, but from time to time, they make it impossible not to.
George GallowayHOST
And this seems to me a cruel, oppressive, but above all, stupid policy.
Steve CookGUEST
Because that was the location and that was the date where Marxists of various shades and from various traditions came together after many months of difficult and complex negotiations in a unity convention to establish a genuine revolutionary party of the working class.
Steve CookGUEST
But what was that unity to be around? It was unity around support for the new Soviet Republic, which had resulted from the seizure of state power by the workers and peasants of Russia less than three years before, and which, in the words of American communist John Reed, had shaken the world by ousting the capitalists and landowners, putting the working class in the driving seat, and pointing the way forward for the exploited and oppressed of the whole world.
Steve CookGUEST
The great October Socialist Revolution, comrades, was and remains the most important single event in the entire history of humankind.
Steve CookGUEST
Of that, let me no doubt.
Pete QuiñonesHOST
It was like when – what's his name? I can't remember the American journalist.
Pete QuiñonesHOST
He's like the only American who's buried in the Kremlin or – in the tomb there, he, John Reed, I think it was when he went to Russia pre-revolution and he was telling Lenin, he's like, the American workers will, will stand with, with the Russian workers.
Pete QuiñonesHOST
And it's like, no, they won't.
Pete QuiñonesHOST
Yeah.
Joe PaprzyckiGUEST
They were looking for something different.
Joe PaprzyckiGUEST
So he came to Provincetown with a friend of his, and he got off and he walked down to the East End and he met with Susan Glaspell and Jig, and the other members, uh, the main one being, uh, Mary Heaton Vorse, um, who, uh, was also a part of the Players, as well as John Reed, who wrote Ten Days That Shook the World, Louise Bryant, who we'll get to the affair they all had together.
Joe PaprzyckiGUEST
[laughs] Um, but he came up to write, and he, he had, uh, if, again, going by the source, a satchel of plays or a steamer full of trays of plays.
Joe PaprzyckiGUEST
Now, as a playwright myself, I know you, you carry some stuff with you, but I don't think he's gonna carry everything he wrote, but who knows? Who knows which story's true? None of us were alive then.
Joe PaprzyckiGUEST
Um, and they, um, would do, I think it was two plays or four plays, depending on the month, of different writers' plays.
Joe PaprzyckiGUEST
But O'Neill's the one that stood out.
Joe PaprzyckiGUEST
John Reed, who's one of my heroes, um, by the way, he and Louise lived at 592 Commercial.
Joe PaprzyckiGUEST
I've been trying to get in there for the nine years I've lived here, just to be where John Reed was.
Joe PaprzyckiGUEST
They were looking for something different.
Joe PaprzyckiGUEST
So he came to Provincetown with a friend of his, and he got off and he walked down to the East End, and he met with Susan Glaspell and Jig, and the other members, uh, the main one being, uh, Mary Heaton Vorse, um, who, uh, was also a part of the Players, as well as John Reed, who wrote Ten Days That Shook the World, Louise Bryant, who we'll get to the affair they all had together.
Joe PaprzyckiGUEST
[laughs] Um, but he came up to write, and he, he had, uh, if, again, going by the source, a satchel of plays or a steamer full of trays of plays.
Joe PaprzyckiGUEST
Now, as a playwright myself, I know you, you carry some stuff with you, but I don't think he's gonna carry everything he wrote, but who knows? Who knows which story is true? None of us were alive then.
Joe PaprzyckiGUEST
Um, and they, um, would do, I think it was two plays or four plays, depending on the month, of different writers' plays.
Joe PaprzyckiGUEST
But O'Neill's the one that stood out.
Joe PaprzyckiGUEST
John Reed, who's one of my heroes, um...
Joe PaprzyckiGUEST
By the way, he and Louise lived at 592 Commercial.
Pete QuiñonesHOST
It was like when – what's his name? I can't remember the American journalist.
Pete QuiñonesHOST
He's like the only American who's buried in the Kremlin or – in the tomb there, he, John Reed, I think it was when he went to Russia pre-revolution and he was telling Lenin, he's like, the American workers will, will stand with, with the Russian workers.
Pete QuiñonesHOST
And
AaronGUEST
it's like, no, they won't.
Karl DahlGUEST
Anyway, the police didn't have rapid reaction squads and i saw police like looking and like radioing um and and one of these older guys and they were all just like junkies and um said oh well the our strategy is that by doing this we will uh get the police to attack the innocent people and then the people of the country will rise up and then we will have an anarchist revolution
Pete QuiñonesHOST
That's the same thing that John Reed went to Moscow and promised Lenin what happened in the United States.
Pete QuiñonesHOST
And the United States is just not fucking made for that.
Karl DahlGUEST
No, not at all.
Karl DahlGUEST
And one of these older guys, and they were all just like junkies and shit, said, well, our strategy is that by doing this, we will get the police to attack the innocent people, and then the people of the country will rise up, and then we will have an anarchist revolution.
Pete QuiñonesHOST
That's the same thing that John Reed went to free in Moscow and promised Lenin would happen in the United States.
Pete QuiñonesHOST
And the United States is just not fucking made for that.
Karl DahlGUEST
No, not at all.
BeauHOST
Do you know what it reminds me of? Where you're talking about all those different editors.
BeauHOST
There's a film called Reds, a really early 80s film called Reds with Warren Beatty, and it's about the American playwright and journalist John Reed, who was one of those guys that was actually an American that was at the 1917 Russian Revolution and wrote about it.
BeauHOST
He was friends with a number of other famous writers at the time.
BeauHOST
Anyway, there's one bit in that film where he's a journalist and he sends in his copy and...