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The real stories behind the most misunderstood and abused ideas in politics. A podcast with Dorian Lynskey and Ian Dunt. http://patreon.com/originstorypod Produced by Podmasters
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03.10.2025 14:31 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Karl Marx would have been a menace on social media 🤣
Marx would have been chronically online and leading the worst pile-ons.
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“Nobody explains capitalism better than Marx.”
@iandunt.bsky.social and @dorianlynskey.bsky.social discuss how Karl Marx's ideas stayed relevant even after the fall of the Soviet Union.
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🚨New episode out🚨 @iandunt.bsky.social and @dorianlynskey.bsky.social continue the socialism season with the big guy, Karl Marx.
“Philosophers have hitherto only interpreted the world in various ways,” Marx wrote. “The point is to change it.”
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ICE detention centres have a systemic problem with sexual abuse.
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What does socialism mean?
@iandunt.bsky.social and @dorianlynskey.bsky.social discuss the meaning of socialism in the latest episode of Origin Story 👉 youtu.be/RHPiU4dsZhc
The first episode of our new season of Origin Story is now available to watch on YouTube 👉 youtu.be/RHPiU4dsZhc
This season it’s the story of socialism, from the earliest blueprints to the present day, Lenin to Labour, Marx to Mao, Gramsci to Gorbachev & Proudhon to Piketty.
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The British Chinese – Hidden Generations episode is now up on our YouTube channel 👉 youtu.be/wcwWMhri8uM
Please subscribe and keep your eyes peeled for brand new episodes of Origin Story starting from next week! 👀
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The Rivers of Blood – How Enoch Powell Poisoned Britain episode is now up on our YouTube channel 👉 youtu.be/WDGm9lPjP7M
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“A better world is possible. How do you get there? And how does it get warped along the way? Is a massive part of the story.”
@dorianlynskey.bsky.social and @iandunt.bsky.social discuss the essence of socialism in our latest season. Listen now 👉 linktr.ee/originstoryp...
The Shostakovich and Stalin episode is now up on our new YouTube channel 👉 youtu.be/sXPeX_cG3vA
Please subscribe to our channel for more episodes including brand new episodes from our new season on socialism starting from next week!
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🚨Season 8 – The Story of Socialism – starts today🚨 It’s arguably the most earth-shaking political concept of the last 200 years. @iandunt.bsky.social and @dorianlynskey.bsky.social start with the idea's inception during turbulent times in the mid 1800s.
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🚨We have a brand new YouTube channel!🚨
We will be posting new episodes from our new season on socialism starting from next week, so please subscribe to our channel!
The ICE episode with
@dorianlynskey.bsky.social and
@iandunt.bsky.social is available to watch now - youtu.be/doFECFeqvEc
🚨 Season 8 -The Story of Socialism- premiere now available exclusively for Patreon supporters 🚨 The new season from @dorianlynskey.bsky.social and @iandunt.bsky.social kicks off with the development of socialist ideas after the French Revolution. Public release 24/09
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🚨 New episode out 🚨 @iandunt.bsky.social and @dorianlynskey.bsky.social chart the ups and downs of the British Chinese population. Is this immigration success story one that should be referenced more by politicians on the left?
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Don't miss @dorianlynskey.bsky.social and @iandunt.bsky.social's look at Enoch Powell's poisonous 'Rivers of Blood' speech. It lives on in the collective memory and colours debate about immigration today.
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📣 New episode out 📣 @dorianlynskey.bsky.social and @iandunt.bsky.social discuss Enoch Powell’s so-called “Rivers of Blood” speech, the explosive political speech that brought far-right ideas into the British mainstream.
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"The most consequential bad review in the history of music criticism". @dorianlynskey.bsky.social and @iandunt.bsky.social tell the story of Shostakovich and Stalin. Listen / watch now ➡️ linktr.ee/originstoryp...
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🎶 New episode out 🎶 Join @dorianlynskey.bsky.social and @iandunt.bsky.social for Shostakovich and Stalin. How did Shostakovich manage to produce great art in a dictatorship, and what did it cost him?
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Sexual assault allegations against ICE personnel suggest widespread and systemic problems. @iandunt.bsky.social and @dorianlynskey.bsky.social look at the current culture of ICE to see what it reveals.
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The people ICE recruitment attracts are those who like the look of their thuggish behaviour. @iandunt.bsky.social and @dorianlynskey.bsky.social look at how Trump's immigration enforcers have changed into what we see today.
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🧊New episode out🧊 ICE - How Trump built an American Gestapo. Masked men bundling people into unmarked cars is now a state-sponsored activity in the US. @iandunt.bsky.social and @dorianlynskey.bsky.social ask how we got here.
🎥Video available on Spotify!
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It is from part 2, yes!
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🎙️The season 7 finale is out🎙️ Martin Luther King Jr. Part 2.
@dorianlynskey.bsky.social and @iandunt.bsky.social discuss King's remarkable story. What happens when a human being becomes a symbol? How has his message been whitewashed by the right?
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Martin Luther King Jr. supported positive discrimination but a quote from his most famous speech is often used, disingenuously, to try and support arguments against the policy. Listen to part 1 of @iandunt.bsky.social and @dorianlynskey.bsky.social's episodes on MLK here ⬇️
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Welcome to the final topic of season seven: the extraordinary life and legacy of Dr Martin Luther King. By our standards, there’s an unusual moral clarity to this story – but that doesn’t make it straightforward. @iandunt.bsky.social and @dorianlynskey.bsky.social discuss
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The government is talking about growth yet again but what is it, are we measuring it right, and could we live with less of it? I'll never look at GDP the same way again.
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📈NEW EPISODE📈
Growth is the world's greatest obsession. When it's booming, it makes everything easier. When it stagnates, everybody panics. But what exactly is it, what drives it and what does it cost us? @dorianlynskey.bsky.social and @iandunt.bsky.social discuss ➡️ linktr.ee/originstorypodcast
Dreams of Mars come in many forms. Listen to @iandunt.bsky.social and @dorianlynskey.bsky.social's episode on Mars and all the different things the Red Planet can mean to humanity.
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