{"podcast":{"title":"The Peter McCormack Show","slug":"the-peter-mccormack-show-525419","podcast_index_feed_id":525419,"rss_url":"https://feeds.acast.com/public/shows/69d4f193b76468caacc5068f","website_url":"https://www.petermccormack.com/","image_url":"https://assets.pippa.io/shows/69d4f193b76468caacc5068f/show-cover.jpg","author":"Peter McCormack","episode_count":1075,"summary":"The Peter McCormack Show - politics, macro, Bitcoin and AI, long-form interviews. Twice-weekly conversations about money, power, and the shifts reshaping the next decade. Peter McCormack interviews politicians, economists, investors, journalists, founders and Bitcoiners. Past guests include Liz Truss, Lyn Alden, Curtis Yarvin, Matt Goodwin, Mike Green, Balaji Srinivasan, Rupert Lowe, Firas Modad, Scott Horton, Jeff Booth, Connor Leahy, Andrea Miotti, Neema Parvini, Dr Tim Gregory and Simon Dixon. Recurring threads: the debt and inflation endgame, UK political collapse and what comes after, Reform and the populist wave, the Middle East and the American war machine, AI safety and the race for superintelligence, energy and net zero, Bitcoin adoption and policy, and the slow-motion decline of Western institutions. Long-form - most episodes run 60 to 120 minutes. New episodes 2 to 3 times per week. Video on YouTube and Spotify. Host: Peter McCormack, a retired rapper from Bedford, UK, trying to understand this crazy world. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.","last_synced_at":"2026-07-31T06:19:00.527164+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-peter-mccormack-show-525419"},"episode":{"title":"#165 - Emmet Connor - The Ideology Slowly Destroying the West","slug":"165-emmet-connor-the-ideology-slowly-destroying-the-west","published_at":"2026-04-14T17:31:22+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-peter-mccormack-show-525419/165-emmet-connor-the-ideology-slowly-destroying-the-west","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-peter-mccormack-show-525419","url":"https://shows.acast.com/the-peter-mccormack-show/episodes/165-emmet-connor-marxism-the-ideology-slowly-destroying-the","audio_url":"https://sphinx.acast.com/p/open/s/69d4f193b76468caacc5068f/e/69de79ebae3386471508b0f9/media.mp3","summary":"Emmet Connor, author of Red Pandemic, joins me to discuss his claim that Marxist ideas are expanding globally through culture, institutions and politics. We start with the core question: is there actually a coherent Marxist movement in the modern West or is the term being used too loosely to describe broader social change? We also explore what Marxism is today, how it may have evolved beyond its original economic focus and whether its historical outcomes are a failure of implementation or something inherent to the ideology itself. - ⁠- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - TIMESTAMPS: 00:00:00 - Marxism Or Leftism 00:05:00 - Defining The Revolution 00:10:55 - Useful Idiots Problem 00:18:52 - Fabian Influence Debate 00:30:00 - Do Marxists Know? 00:37:52 - How Ideas Spread 00:48:34 - Freedom And Liberty 01:02:23 - The Right’s Branding 01:16:30 - Where The Right Wins 01:30:31 - Power And Democracy 01:46:56 - What People Actually Want 02:10:23 - Final Reflections - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - CONTACT PETE › Website – http://petermccormack.com › Feedback – https://www.petermccormack.com/contact › Email – me@petermccormack.com › Instagram – /mccormack555 › X/Twitter – https://x.com/petermccormack/ CONNECT WITH EMMET CONNOR › Twitter – https://x.com/ResolvingR › Book – https://omnia-veritas.com/product/red-pandemic/ › YouTube – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AI2cy4Dp_8M SPONSORS › LEDN - https://www.ledn.io/peter › Monetary Metals - https://www.Monetary-Metals.com/McCormack - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - LISTEN / SUBSCRIBE › Apple Podcasts: https://apple.co/40ruY9K › Spotify: htt…","meta_description":"Emmet Connor, author of Red Pandemic, joins me to discuss his claim that Marxist ideas are expanding globally through culture, institutions and politics.…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":7897,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/the-peter-mccormack-show-525419/episodes/165-emmet-connor-the-ideology-slowly-destroying-the-west/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-peter-mccormack-show-525419/165-emmet-connor-the-ideology-slowly-destroying-the-west.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}