Aug 20, 2019
In the first episode of Ad Vincere Mundi and the first episode
in the How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Histomat arc, which
deals with the history of Classics as a discipline, Colette breaks
down what dialectical and historical materialism are, and then
confronts one of the most egregious and poisonous myths about the
field: that of classical history as ‘white history’.
Intro Music: Pines of Rome: Pines of the Villa
Borghese, by Ottorino Respighi. Riccardo Muti conducting the
Philadelphia Orchestra.
Musical Interlude: Ύμνος του Εθνικό Απελευθερωτικό
Μέτωπο (Anthem of the Greek National Liberation Front). Maria
Dimitriadi, Afroditi Manou.
Outro: Roman Festivals: The Epiphany, by Ottorino Respighi. Sergiu
Comissiona conducting the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra.
Sources for today’s episode:
Dialectical and Historical Materialism, Joseph Stalin;
The Class Struggle in the Ancient Greek World, by GEM de Ste.
Croix;
Black Marxism: The Making of the Black Radical Tradition, by Cedric
Robinson
Recommended further reading:
Peasant-Citizen and Slave, by Ellen Meiksins Wood;
Invention of the White Race, by Theodore W. Allen;
The Agrarian Sociology of Ancient Civilizations, by Max Weber