Bonus#24 Dialectics of Imperial Collapse. Part One: Ancient Greece

This is a re-upload of an episode I did recently with Subliminal Jihad, which again is a podcast I am sure many of you are aware of and if not one I think you would enjoy very much.
Original episode notes.
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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