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) Confronting Capitalism: The Origins of Capitalism
It’s well understood that capitalist economies are a recent development in human history. But there is persistent disagreement on the Left over exactly how and where the transition to capitalism occur...Show More
6) Jacobin Radio: Trump’s War on Dissent w/ Pema Levy
The Roberts Court gave Trump sweeping immunity — and he’s using it to intimidate critics, greenlight ICE’s racial profiling raids, extort universities, law firms, corporations, and foreign governments...Show More
7) Dig: State of Impunity w/ Alberto Toscano and Stuart Schrader
Featuring Alberto Toscano and Stuart Schrader on Trump’s intensification of police, ICE, and military repression. What does this all reveal about MAGA’s fascist and authoritarian project — and about t...Show More
8) Behind the News: High Church Neoliberalism w/ Quinn Slobodian
Quinn Slobodian, author of Hayek’s Bastards, speaks about the eugenics/race science tendencies within High Church Neoliberalism. Molly White looks at stablecoins and the Trump–UAE deal. Behind the New...Show More
9) Long Reads: Portugal’s Left in Retreat w/ Catarina Príncipe (Part 1)
Long Reads spoke to Yanis Varoufakis earlier in the year to mark the tenth anniversary of the Greek referendum on the austerity programs of the European Union. This week, we’re going to be looking at ...Show More
10) Dig: Fascist Police State w/ Alberto Toscano and Stuart Schrader
Featuring Alberto Toscano and Stuart Schrader on Trump’s intensification of police, ICE, and military repression. What does this all reveal about MAGA’s fascist and authoritarian project—and about the...Show More