In this rare audio recording made available to all subscribers, I tease out some of the antinomies of theories used to justify the Red Caesar position of certain influential figures on the “dissident right” (or whatever it’s being called these days). More of a head-clearing exercise on my part as I prepare my next paid subscribers audio. And, of course, if you’d like to access all these occasional audios, with my more involved theoretical explanations or hot take applications of the theory developed here to current events, please do take out a paid subscription and help support the sustainability of this modest Substack project. In any event, thank you for your support in reading my work. It is all much appreciated.
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Relistening I realized that I mucked up the chronology of Schmitt’s publications — Legality and Legitimacy precedes the book version of The Concept of the Political. I had it in my mind that the latter was published a bit earlier than the former, but I believe they were actually published in that order, both in 1932.
For sources cited in this audio recording, see the following posts and books.
For my critique of Parvini’s book, The Populist Delusion
For my analysis of the role of left and right in the French Revolution
For the distinction between mass and pluralist society
And, of course, my two most recent books draw out the fuller context and implications of all these ideas and arguments:
ANTINOMIES OF RED CAESAR