The 4 Best Jacobin Radio Podcast Episodes
1) Jacobin Radio: Gilets Jaunes, the Gamification of Class Struggle
In this episode, Suzi talks to Jacobin contributing editor Sebastian Budgen about the gilet jaunes protests rocking France, named for the yellow traffic vests the protestors wear. The movement was ign...Show More
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Interesting policy and politics specific talk from a genuine leftist outlook. Good companion to the Jacobin Mag
AUDIO REMOVED: The podcast creator has removed the audio for this episode.2) Jacobin Radio: The "Miracle" of Silicon Valley; Democratic Party Futures
Suzi talks to scholar activist Richard Walker about his new book, Pictures of a Gone City, an urban geography of the San Francisco Bay Area, America’s richest and fastest changing metropolis. Walker e...Show More
AUDIO REMOVED: The podcast creator has removed the audio for this episode.3) Behind the News: Jodi Dean on Political Belonging
Jodi Dean, author of Comrade, on the sense of political belonging formed by and essential to common struggle. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
4) The Dig: Free Palestine with Noura Erakat
Israel is massacring Palestinians daring to approach a fence that occupation forces have built to shore up an ethno-state founded on the principle of apartheid. Nothing could be more clear. But you wo...Show More
AUDIO REMOVED: The podcast creator has removed the audio for this episode.5) The Dig: Organizing Zohran’s NYC w/ Alina Shen and Fahd Ahmed
Featuring Alina Shen and Fahd Ahmed on organizing working-class Asian New Yorkers into Zohran Mamdani’s campaign and then building power under a democratic socialist mayor. A discussion with two of Ne...Show More
6) Behind the News: Yuppies w/ Dylan Gottlieb
Dylan Gottlieb, author of the new book Yuppies, explores how that often risible but pioneering social formation took over NYC. Ervand Abrahamian looks at the politics of Iran, a country under siege. B...Show More
7) Jacobin Radio: Iran in the Imperial Crosshairs
This week Jacobin Radio presents “In the Imperial Crosshairs: Trump's War and Its Consequences for the People of Iran and Ukraine,” a panel organized by Haymarket Books that took place on April 16. Mo...Show More
8) Confronting Capitalism: How Socialism Could Work
Throughout the 20th century, socialism came to be associated with both central planning and shortages. But could democratic ownership of the economy work alongside market competition? On the latest ep...Show More
9) The Dig: Rogue Elephant w/ Paul Heideman
Featuring Paul Heideman on how the Republican Party became so spectacularly unhinged. How the disorganization of the party and the disorganization of the US capitalist class have combined to intensify...Show More
10) Behind the News: Elon’s World w/ Quinn Slobodian and Ben Tarnoff
Quinn Slobodian and Ben Tarnoff, authors of Muskism: A Guide for the Perplexed, on Elon’s world and what he wants to do to ours. Behind the News, hosted by Doug Henwood, covers the worlds of economics...Show More