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EPISODE · Mar 30, 2026 · 27 MIN

1. The Democratic Deficit

from Gramsci and the Struggle for Democratic Communism · host Michael Wayne

In this, episode 1, I will consider how it was that communism and democracy diverged so radically in the twentieth century – to the extent that putting those two words, communism and democracy, together, is likely to raise at the very least, a sceptical eyebrow or two, if not outright guffaws of laughter. 

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In this, episode 1, I will consider how it was that communism and democracy diverged so radically in the twentieth century – to the extent that putting those two words, communism and democracy, together, is likely to raise at the very least, a sceptical eyebrow or two, if not outright guffaws of laughter.

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