It really helps to have some previous knowledge of the Paris Commune and the German SDP. He's really good about providing complete quotations from previous theory, but doesn't do any hand-holding with on general history. I'd suggest listening to season 8 of the Revolutions podcast for some background on the Paris Commune. I don't have a really great suggestion for SDP history, but there is a light overview in Bhaskar Sunkara's 'The Socialist Manifesto', which is available in a very listenable audio edition. If anybody has an English audio book suggestion in for SDP history I'd be very interested to hear it.
It really helps to have some previous knowledge of the Paris Commune and the German SDP. He's really good about providing complete quotations from previous theory, but doesn't do any hand-holding with on general history. I'd suggest listening to season 8 of the Revolutions podcast for some background on the Paris Commune. I don't have a really great suggestion for SDP history, but there is a light overview in Bhaskar Sunkara's 'The Socialist Manifesto', which is available in a very listenable audio edition. If anybody has an English audio book suggestion in for SDP history I'd be very interested to hear it.