Erik Baker, author of a recent article for Bias magazine, joins Doug for another look at the latest Behind the News obsession: post-leftism. Then, José Sanchez, author of a critique in Jacobin about Afropessimism, examines the school of thought and its contradictions.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
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Folge vom 18.07.2022Behind the News: Contradictions of Afropessimism w/ José Sanchez
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Folge vom 16.07.2022Long Reads: Adrienne Buller on the Rise of Asset-Manager CapitalismAdrienne Buller joins Long Reads for a discussion about "asset-manager capitalism" and the climate crisis. Adrienne is senior research fellow at Common Wealth, a progressive think tank, and co-author of the forthcoming book Owning the Future.Read Adrienne's review of Trillions here: https://jacobin.com/2022/03/index-funds-blackrock-vanguard-stocks-ownership-democracy-concentration/And her report for Common Wealth here: https://www.common-wealth.co.uk/reports/asset-manager-capitalism-where-nextLong 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.
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Folge vom 15.07.2022Jacobin Show: Anti-Imperialism & Socialism w/ Aziz RanaPaul Prescod explains how the rise and fall of the black middle class was set to the fortunes of the auto sector—and why the Democratic Party keeps writing off the working class. Jen Pan covers the GOP's bogus war on woke capitalism. And Aziz Rana outlines what a real, robust left internationalism should look like and how it can be tied to domestic fights for social democracy. The Jacobin Show is a weekly YouTube show offering 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 episode from July 13, 2022.
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Folge vom 14.07.2022Behind the News: The Abortion Struggle w/ Jenny BrownDoug speaks with Jenny Brown of National Women’s Liberation (and author of Without Apology and Birth Strike) on the early struggle for abortion rights that led to Roe and what we can learn from it for today. Then David De Jong, author of Nazi Billionaires, discusses how respectable German businessmen became loyal Nazis. 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