Episode 700: Wagner the Revolutionary

Zero Squared by Douglas Lain

Jul 18, 202684:05Society & Culture

Jim Igor, aka The Perfect Wagnerite, discusses the contradictions and revolutionary potential of Wagner's operas. He argues that Wagner represents both the ambition towards freedom and the self-defeat of the bourgeois re...

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