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Casualties of History: The Kingdom Within Apr 17, 2020

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We cover chapters one and two — "Members Unlimited" and "Christian Apollyon" — on this week's episode. Rachel Foxley, a professor of history at the University of Reading and author of The Levellers: Radical Political Thought in the English Revolution, joins us to talk about the English Revolution.

Secondary Reading:

Rachel Foxley, The Levellers (Manchester University Press, 2013).

Christopher Hill, The Experience of Defeat(Verso, 2017).

Peter Linebaugh and Marcus Rediker, The Many-Headed Hydra(Verso, 2014).

CB Macpherson, The Political Theory of Possessive Individualism (Oxford University Press, 2011).

Barrington Moore, Jr., Social Origins of Dictatorship and Democracy (Beacon Press, 1993).

Ellen Meiksins Wood, Democracy Against Capitalism(Cambridge University Press, 1995).

The Dig: Fear City with Kim Phillips-Fein Apr 14, 2020

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Dan interviews historian Kim Phillips-Fein about her book Fear City: New York's Fiscal Crisis and the Rise of Austerity Politics and about how the destruction of social democracy made today's city where coronavirus is killing its poor and working-class people.

In other news: Dan's Jacobin essay on keeping the Bernie infrastructure alive is here and the volunteer petition to do so, which you should sign, is here.

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Casualties of History: Preface Apr 10, 2020

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Welcome to Casualties of History, a podcast from Jacobin magazine. We’ll be working our way through EP Thompson’s The Making of the English Working Class. In this first episode, Alex and Gabe introduce themselves and cover the book’s preface, as well as outline the context in which it was written. Who was Thompson, and what was he aiming to do in writing this book? Who was he arguing with, and why?
Reference is made to secondary literature:
Perry Anderson, “Origins of the Present Crisis,” New Left Review 1, no. 23 (Jan-Feb 1964).
EP Thompson, “The Peculiarities of the English,” Socialist Register (1965).

Thompson, “Time, Work Discipline, and Industrial Capitalism,” Past & Present no. 38 (Dec 1967).
Frederick Cooper, “Work, class and empire: An African historian's retrospective on E. P. Thompson,” Social History 20, no. 2 (1995).
Geoff Eley, A Crooked Line(University of Michigan, 2006).
Madeleine Davis, “Reappraising British socialist humanism,” Journal of Political Ideologies 18, no. 1 (2013).
Davis, “Edward Thompson's Ethics and Activism 1956–1963: Reflections on the Political Formation of The Making of the English Working Class,” Contemporary British History 28, no. 4 (2014).

The Vast Majority: Bernie Is Out with Marianela D’Aprile and Eric Blanc Apr 09, 2020

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Bernie Sanders is out of the race. We can’t go on; we must go on. Micah talked about it with Jacobin contributor Eric Blanc and Democratic Socialists of America National Political Committee member Marianela D’Aprile. Read Eric’s piece on Bernie dropping out here:https://jacobinmag.com/2020/<wbr />04/bernie-sanders-campaign-<wbr />supporters-2020-election Buy ‘Bigger than Bernie’ here:https://jacobinmag.com/store/<wbr />product/69

The Dig: Organizing Now with Sarah Jaffe & Jasson Perez Apr 08, 2020

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Dan interviews veteran organizer Jasson Perez and journalist Sarah Jaffe on left organizing amid covid and where it might go.

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Jacobin Radio: James K. Galbraith and Aaron Benanav Apr 06, 2020

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Suzi talks to James K. Galbraith on the economic policies we need, and Aaron Benanav on the crisis of unemployment. James K Galbraithresponds to the multiple crises and challenges brought by the coronavirus pandemic, laying out the economic policy we need now, and the mobilization necessary to get it. He proposes concrete measures, like a Health Finance Corporation, that could be an efficient one-stop shop for all the resources needed. We ask why the economy as currently organized has been unable to deal with the challenges of the pandemic. Galbraith's watchwords: solidarity, organization, and determination.Aaron Benanav writes about employment, especially the irregular, informal and precarious forms of employment — the ones that fall through the large holes in the shredded safety net. His article, “Crisis and Recovery” looks at the cataclysmic economic crisis unfolding in tandem with the public health crisis. We get his findings.

The Vast Majority: Bigger than Bernie with Meagan Day Apr 03, 2020

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'Bigger than Bernie: How We Go from the Sanders Campaign to Democratic Socialism' is out this week, and coauthors Micah Uetricht and Meagan Day are talking about it today. Buy it from Jacobin for $12.95 here: https://jacobinmag.com/<wbr />store/product/69

The Dig: Surviving This Plague with Amy Kapczynski and Gregg Gonsalves Apr 03, 2020

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Dan interviews Amy Kapczynski and Gregg Gonsalves on the politics of public health and what we can learn from ACT UP.

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The Dig: Who Got Bailed Out with Eric Levitz Mar 30, 2020

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Dan interviews New York magazine writer Eric Levitz on the big corporate bailout that gave workers precious little to survive the corona crisis.

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The Dig: Coronavirus Economics with Grace Blakeley Mar 27, 2020

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Dan interviews Marxist economist Grace Blakeley on coronavirus economics.

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