Jacobin Radio Folgen

Dan's 2018 interview with Matthew Frye Jacobson on Roots Too: White Ethnic Revival in Post–Civil Rights America. With a new intro from Dan on the Columbus myth and the politics of white ethnicity.Support this podcast with money at Patreon.com/TheDig

Micah and Meagan speak with sociologist Barry Eidlin, author of Labor and the Class Idea in the United States and Canada, and Jacobin contributing editor Chris Maisano on why the US doesn't have a labor party and why that matters. Barry's book: https://www.cambridge.<wbr />org/core/books/labor-and-the-<wbr />class-idea-in-the-united-<wbr />states-and-canada/<wbr />356399CB43939B0B259AE018615D55<wbr />87 Barry's article "The Phantom Limb": https://www.jacobinmag.<wbr />com/2016/11/labor-third-party-<wbr />us-canada-ccf-ndp-democrats-<wbr />unions/ Chris's review of Barry's book: https://jacobinmag.com/<wbr />2020/06/labor-party-in-the-<wbr />usa-workers-party-history

In this episode we discuss Chapter 15, "Demagogues and Martyrs." The period immediately after peace in 1815 saw both a rapid rise in militancy and intense repression, such that an increasingly agitated and radicalized population had no organizational capacity to express its militancy. This gave rise to personalized leadership around individual demagogues and to an oscillation between insurrectionary and constitutionalist approaches. We also discuss the Peterloo massacre, which is narrated in this chapter, and Mike Leigh's recent film Peterloo on the subject.