English journalists Dorian Lynskey and Ian Dunt have produced an engaging and sometimes laugh-out-loud funny journey from the earliest days of socialism to the present. Season Eight of their podcast Origin Story runs nearly 21 hours, covering everything from the birth of the British Labour Party to the arc of Soviet communism.
The podcast is peppered with f-bombs, which are entirely appropriate for describing the horrors of the Holodomor. Lynskey and Dunt have a knack for finding historical details that bring insight and humor not only to the ideas underlying socialism, but to the lives of socialism's leading figures. Karl Marx's "idea of misery," for example, is "submission." For Friedrich Engels, it's "going to the dentist."
