Reactionary

And today, we're very excited to have Julia Zare, a professor of political science at Marquette University in Milwaukee, where they're not only talking about the election and talking about the brewers, but everybody's talking about Julia's book.

And I must say, we meant to talk about this last year and couldn't put it together, but we have what we call in the business a news hook, because backlash presidents, From Transformative to Reactionary Leaders in American History is now an award-winning book.

I believe the most prestigious American Political Science Association award given to books about the presidency is that.

I forget what the name of it is, but you can.

Hello and welcome to By the Brook, a podcast that is one part audiobook, one part commentary, hosted by me, Luke Brooks.

Episode six: Reactionary Socialism.

[singing] So I would actually like to start this episode with a quick apology to my Patreon subscribers, because unfortunately, this episode was not able to get to you on time, or early in your case.

Basically, over the last couple months, I had a series of family tragedies, friend tragedies, and just work that completely pulled my focus, and I just wasn't able to get all of it done, and I'm sorry for that.

But since I've left you waiting long enough, let's go ahead and just jump right back into the text.

Section three: Socialist and Communist Literature.

Subsection One: Reactionary Socialism.

Part A: Feudal Socialism.

We're not going to have Loyal and...

Reactionaries start at maybe six, go to four, go to two.

It might change.

They might not always be those same progressives and reactionaries.

Therefore, there is this, I think, unnecessary and quite unfortunate tendency that was that tendency to really, without understanding,

Reactionary.

Yeah.

I think this is an indication that we lost our self-confidence.