Kia Ora, Nihao and hello! Welcome to the Chiwi Journal Podcast. I’m your host Camellia Yang.

My guest today is Nick Lee. He is a university instructor of Sociology and Humanities and Co-Host of the Revolution and Ideology program.

We discussed:

Nick’s combined background of finance, technology, sociology and phycology
Brief introduction of the Revolution and Ideology podcast
How do we judge whether a revolution is successful or not?
What’s Cyber Anarchism? What’re the responses to Balaji’s Network State/Union essays on 1729.com?
Are we conditioned to be settlers or nomads?
What’s the definition of a state? What’s the rule of violence?
How do ideologies and -isms affect people’s life and behaviour? Can we escape from ideologies?
What misunderstanding from the mass about anarchism?
How can we challenge the status quo and build the Network State?
What are technology debt and ideology debt?
Is China a real Communism country? What about Russia?

Books and links mentioned in this episode:

Revolution and Ideology podcast
French Revolution
American Revolution
Cyber Anarchism
Network State/Union by Balaji Srinivasan
1729.com
The Art of Not Being Governed by James C. Scott
Max Weber's definition on Nation State
Rogers M. Smith
Antonio Gramsci's theory of hegemony
Cultural Revolution
The End of History and the Last Man by Francis Fukuyama
Werner Herzog's films
Anarchism as a philosophy
Lenin’s Conception of Socialism

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#117: Revolution, Ideology, Cyber Anarchism and Nation/Network State with Nick Lee

Chiwi Journal

#117: Revolution, Ideology, Cyber Anarchism and Nation/Network State with Nick Lee