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Jacobin Show: Leaving Occupy Anarchism in the Past w/ Ben Fong & Christie Offenbacher Mar 18, 2022

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To start off this week’s Jacobin Show, Jen Pan looks at the discourse around "economic anxiety" as an explanation for voters' turn to Donald Trump and other right wing politicians. Why do mainstream commentators still refuse to see that these voters are, in fact, driven by material interests and not simply "racial resentment"? Next, Jen Pan and Cale Brooks think about how the Left should understand the middle class. What are the best social theories to understand the economic position of the middle class as well as their political interests? Must the Left win over the middle class to gain real power? Finally, we turn to the legacy of Occupy Wall Street. Jen Pan sat down with Ben Fong and Christie Offenbacher to discuss their latest Catalyst article, “Occupy in Retrospect.” While it is common to hear that Occupy was the “rebirth” of Left politics that led to the Bernie Sanders campaign and the rise of DSA, Fong and Offenbacher argue that, in fact, the contemporary Left has found success insofar as it has jettisoned Occupy’s horizontalism, anti-Statism, and refusal to issue concrete policy demands.

Read the piece in Catalyst: https://catalyst-journal.com/2022/03/occupy-in-retrospect

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The Jacobin Show, hosted by Jen Pan, offers socialist perspectives on class and capitalism in the twenty-first century, the failures of liberalism, and the prospects of rebuilding a left labor movement in the US. This is the podcast version of the show from March 16, 2022.

A World to Win: The Cost of Living Crisis w/ Gary Stevenson Mar 17, 2022

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New show alert! This week, A World to Win is expanding and launching a new format for the podcast. In addition to our regular long-form interviews, every other week Grace will host shorter, more topical discussions with one of a regular group of guests. On this episode, it's Gary Stevenson of Gary's Economics talking about the cost of living crisis—where's it coming from, who is paying for it, and what can we do about it?

Check out Gary's articles in openDemocracy, "Who should pay for the COVID crisis?" and "Following the coronavirus money trail." And his YouTube videos, "Inflation - Why We Should Have Seen This Coming" and "How COVID-19 Makes the Rich Richer."

Thanks to our producer Conor Gillies and to the Lipman-Miliband Trust for making this episode possible. Please excuse some minor issues in our guest's sound due to a technical issue.

Michael and Us: Contract With America Mar 16, 2022

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She's a Democrat. He's a Republican. They're speechwriters on warring campaigns... But can they fall in love??? That's the premise of the Michael Keaton/Geena Davis romcom SPEECHLESS (1994), which drew inspiration from the real-life romance between Clinton strategist James Carville and Bush advisor Mary Matalin. We discuss a movie that could only have been made in the '90s.

"John Cleese Had Thoughts on Slavery at SXSW and It Was Super Cringey" by James Hibberd - https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/general-news/john-cleese-sxsw-panel-1235109668/

"Bedfellows Make Strange Politics" by Gore Vidal - https://www.nytimes.com/1994/09/18/books/bedfellows-make-strange-politics.html

Michael and Us is a podcast about political cinema and our crumbling world hosted by Will Sloan and Luke Savage.

Jacobin Radio w/ Suzi Weissman: War Motives and Anti-War Resistance Mar 14, 2022

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Suzi talks to historian-activist Simon Pirani about the political and economic motives for the Kremlin's war, as well as the ominous signs of Russia's conduct seen in previous conflicts in Chechnya, Syria, and the Donbas in 2014. The campaign of devastation aimed at cities and towns across Ukraine, and the brutality of Russian forces has only prompted more protest in Ukraine—and in Russia too, despite draconian repressive measures. As the reality of the carnage and destruction sinks in, millions flee, but resistance grows. Simon writes about Russia, East Europe, the left, and resistance at his website, peoplenature.org.

Behind the News: Monopoly Medicine & the Anti-Dollar Axis Mar 14, 2022

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Doug speaks with Alexander Zaitchik, author of Owning the Sun, on how the pharmaceutical industry became such a high-priced racket. Plus: Zongyuan Zoe Liu, co-author of a recent article in Foreign Affairs, "The Anti-Dollar Axis," discusses sanctions and the global preeminence of the US dollar.

Behind the News, hosted by Doug Henwood, covers the worlds of economics and politics and their complex interactions, from the local to the global. Find the archive here: https://www.leftbusinessobserver.com/Radio.html

Long Reads: Lea Ypi on the Enigmas of Modern Albania Mar 12, 2022

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Lea Ypi joins Long Reads for a discussion about Albanian history. Lea is a professor of political theory at the London School of Economics and the author of several books. Her most recent work is Free: Coming of Age at the End of History. It'saccount of her experience growing up in the last years of Albanian Communism and the first phase of the country's new capitalist order.

Long Reads is a Jacobin podcast looking in-depth at political topics and thinkers, both contemporary and historical, with the magazine’s longform writers. Hosted by Features Editor Daniel Finn.

Produced by Conor Gillies, music by Knxwledge.

Jacobin Show: Overcoming Working-Class Alienation w/ Krystal Ball Mar 11, 2022

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Krystal Ball joins The Jacobin Show for a discussion about the alienation and de-politicization affecting the working class, and how to break out of it. They also cover the role of independent media, the Democratic Party's turn away from workers, and the importance of labor going forward. Krystal is the co-host of Breaking Points and Krystal Kyle & Friends and co-author of The Populist's Guide to 2020. Plus: David Broder weighs in on the news from Ukraine.

The Jacobin Show offers socialist perspectives on class and capitalism in the twenty-first century, the failures of liberalism, and the prospects of rebuilding a left labor movement in the US. This is the podcast version of the show from March 9, 2021 with Jen Pan hosting.

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The Dig: War w/ Sophie Pinkham and Nick Mulder Mar 10, 2022

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Sophie Pinkham and Nick Mulder on the war, its origins, how it’s being experienced by Ukrainians, Russians, Europeans, and Americans—and also its geopolitical and global economic ramifications, particularly sanctions.

Support this podcast at Patreon.com/TheDig

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A World to Win: Housing and Class Struggle w/ Susanne Soederberg Mar 10, 2022

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This week Grace talks to Susanne Soederberg, Professor of Political Economy in Global Development Studies at Queen’s University, Canada, about her book Urban Displacements: Governing Surplus and Survival in Global Capitalism. They discuss the class roots of the global housing crisis and the emergence of resistance to the cycle of debt, eviction, and homelessness in some of Europe’s major cities.

A World to Win is a podcast from Grace Blakeley and Tribune bringing you a weekly dose of socialist news, theory and action with guests from around the world. Thanks to our producer Conor Gillies and to the Lipman-Miliband Trust for making this episode possible.

Michael and Us: Sympathy for the Riddler Mar 08, 2022

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Some Batman movies have been called fascist, but THE BATMAN (2022) breaks new ground for the franchise by being lib. We wouldn't be a left-wing culture podcast if we didn't occasionally pick a new Batman movie from the lowest branch on the tree, so come join us as we chart the latest developments in the Caped Crusader's political evolution.

Michael and Us is a podcast about political cinema and our crumbling world hosted by Will Sloan and Luke Savage.

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