Someone on here suggested this podcast last year and this is a great episode about the history of piracy from a marxist perspective.

Hats off to anyone who can pull off a 3+ hour solo podcast like this.

Episode description:

Is piracy just criminal chaos or the mirror to colonial empire?

In this episode, we dive into the world of piracy, from the 16th century to the modern era.

Join Triploi as we look at how the world’s oceans became highways of extraction, creating a golden age of piracy that would parallel the rise of colonial empires.

Over four centuries we look at the wars that trained and armed sailors, the peace times that discard them, and how ports like Nassau would help turn outlaw life into an organised crime economy, with rules, shares, elections, and a ruthless ideology that grew from the exploitation all around them.

Then into the modern world, where piracy has evolved with the technology and the times, trying to survive a global system where control of trade routes still decides who gets called a “criminal”… and who gets called a “state.”