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Sean Guillory joins us for the B-Side. We continue our discussion of Russiagate, the liberal obsession with Russia, and the nature of Putin's power. Next, we answer some excellent questions from patrons and briefly discuss Sean's essay (co-authored with Rafael Khachaturian) "Mapping the American Left." *** The full episode is available as a reward to our supporters. Become a patron of DPS today for full access: http://www.patreon.com/deadpundits *** The essay can be downloaded here [will prompt an immediate download]: http://www.socofpower.ranepa.ru%2Ffiles%2Fdocs%2F4_2018%2F5.pdf&usg=AOvVaw0JWOv6suG2o4x_4CoiUJR5 ------------------------------------- Twitter: http://twitter.com/deadpundits Facebook: http://facebook.com/deadpunditssociety iTunes: http://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/id1212081214 YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/channel/UCHahv2fM9eH2K4TzmsWl\_Xg

Sean Guillory from Sean's Russia House Podcast joins us this week to talk about Russiagate and the legacy of the collapse of the Soviet Union in Russia. So many newly-minted "experts" on Russia in the mainstream press, and yet general knowledge about the recent political history of Russia is at an all-time low. Sean Guillory is here to help! ***Join the Dead Pundits Society Patreon to access this week's B-Side, which will land on Friday: http://patreon.com/deadpundits *** -Check out the new website: http://www.deadpundits.com ----------------------------- Twitter: http://twitter.com/deadpundits Facebook: http://facebook.com/deadpunditssociety iTunes: http://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/id1212081214 YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/channel/UCHahv2fM9eH2K4TzmsWl\_Xg

Branko Marcetic joins us once again for this week's B-Side. We discuss the murderous sanctions on Venezuela and the complicity of leading liberal politicians, the absurdity of Russiagate, a possible war in Iran, and, finally, we answer some patron questions. Join the Dead Pundits Society for full access today: https://www.patreon.com/posts/26935634 Find Branko's relevant writings here: -"From Russiagate to Gunboat Diplomacy," https://jacobinmag.com/2019/05/russiagate-trump-putin-venezuela-john-bolton -"Sanctions are Murder," https://www.jacobinmag.com/2019/05/venezuela-sanctions-trump-intervention -"The Definition of Insanity," https://www.jacobinmag.com/2019/04/us-intervention-trump-venezuela-libya-maduro -"Closing the Russiagate," https://www.jacobinmag.com/2019/03/russiagate-donald-trump-mueller-report -------------------------- Patreon: http://www.patreon.com/deadpundits Twitter: http://twitter.com/deadpundits Facebook: http://facebook.com/deadpunditssociety iTunes: http://itunes.apple.com/us/podc

Joining us this week to talk about the shady political history of Joe Biden is Branko Marcetic, who has penned nearly a dozen pieces on Biden for Jacobin and In These Times. Not only do we perform a career-long analysis of Biden's legacy, but we dig into the neoliberal strategy to defeat Bernie Sanders, as well. The B-Side will be landing for patrons of DPS tomorrow. Join the Society for access today: http://www.patreon.com/deadpundits Check out Branko's latest Biden piece here: "Joe Biden is a Disaster Waiting to Happen," https://www.jacobinmag.com/2019/04/joe-biden-2020-presidential-campaign-record Find his other Biden essays here: www.jacobinmag.com/author/branko-marcetic and here: inthesetimes.com/community/profile/322337 ---------------------- Twitter: http://twitter.com/deadpundits Facebook: http://facebook.com/deadpunditssociety iTunes: http://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/id1212081214 YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/channel/UCHahv2fM9eH2K4TzmsWl\_Xg

Joining us this week to talk about the complexity of black political life and how much of the dominant discourse on “race and class” misses this complexity is Cedric Johnson. In the A-side, we discuss his latest essay “What Black Life Actually Looks Like” and analyze a recent debate that played out in the pages of New Politics on race and class. 

 -What is the notion of “black exceptionalism” and how does it get in the way of producing adequate theories of not only black liberation but the liberation of all? -What is the “racial ‘we’” and how is it deployed to reproduce models of black exceptionalism? -What kind of politics do we need to finish the struggles of the Reconstruction era to the present? 

In the B-Side that follows, available for patrons of DPS, we discuss the New Deal — was it racist and do universal policies serve to reproduce racial inequities? Lastly, what should socialists make of the ADOS and Reparations movements? 

Cedric Johnson is one of the best commentators on these topics, so tune

This B-Side has been unlocked thanks to the generosity of our patrons. To support the political mission of DPS and receive weekly subscriber-only content, join the Society at http://patreon.com/deadpundits ------------------------------------- Joining us this week is Bhaskar Sunkara, publisher and founding editor of Jacobin Magazine. We discuss the case for socialism made in his new book, The Socialist Manifesto. What do Jon Bon Jovi, pasta sauce, unions, and democratic socialism have in common? Tune in to find out (and get a lesson on the history of the 19th and 20th century socialist movements as a bonus!) SUBSCRIBE to DPS today so that you don't miss an episode: itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/id1212081214 -The Socialist Manifesto: https://www.basicbooks.com/titles/bhaskar-sunkara/the-socialist-manifesto/9781541674004/ -------------------------- Twitter: http://twitter.com/deadpundits Facebook: http://facebook.com/deadpunditssociety iTunes: http://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/id1212081214 YouTube: http:

Season 2 of DPS has officially wrapped. Season 3 will launch in beginning of May featuring a new website, weekly YouTube videos along with articles and blog posts. In the meantime, patrons will be getting a weekly B-Side and the free feed will revisit classic episodes of DPS. This episode featuring Adaner Usmani aired a year and a half ago and remains as relevant as ever. Be sure to support DPS Media as we enter our third season: http://www.patreon.com/deadpundits -------------------------- Joining me this week is Adaner Usmani. We discuss his latest essay in Jacobin (co-authored with Connor Kilpatrick) titled "The New Communists." They argue that it's time to leave the iconography and inward-facing legacy of 1917 behind and forge a socialism that addresses people's lived concerns in 2018. SOCIALISM FOR REGULAR-ASS PEOPLE Check out Adaner's writings here: -"The New Communists," http://www.jacobinmag.com/2017/12/the-new-communists -"Did Liberals Give us Mass Incarceration?" https://catalyst-journal.com/vol

*** This is a free sample of this week's B-Side, available in full for patrons of DPS. Join today to hear the full episode and receive access to our entire back catalog. Support the new left agenda today: http://www.patreon.com/deadpundits *** This week's B-Side features part 2 of our series on neoliberalism. In this installment, Aaron Major joins us to discuss his essay, "Ideas without Power," from Catalyst. We discuss the "ideational" model of conceptualizing the neoliberal turn, which places the role of ideas over material forces. We then offer some alternative ways of studying the turn to neoliberalism as a set of material constraints and contradictions of postwar capitalism. This goes beyond dusty academic debates -- if socialists want to know how to go beyond neoliberalism, we must have a grounded understanding of how we got here. Find Aaron's essay here: -"Ideas without Power," http://catalyst-journal.com/vol2/no3/ideas-without-power ------------------------ Twitter: http://twitter.com/deadpundits

Season 2 of DPS has officially wrapped. Season 3 will launch in beginning of May featuring a new website, weekly YouTube videos along with articles and blog posts. In the meantime, patrons will be getting a weekly B-Side and the free feed will revisit classic episodes of DPS. This episode featuring Ed Rooksby aired over a year ago and remains as relevant as ever given recent popularity of Medicare for All and the Green New Deal as structural reforms (or non-reformist reforms). Be sure to support DPS Media as we enter our third season: http://www.patreon.com/deadpundits ------------------------------------ Ed Rooksby, Tutor in Politics and Social Sciences at Ruskin College in Oxford, joins us to talk about structural reform and socialist strategy. We kick things off with a discussion of SYRIZA and socialist strategy along with a healthy dose of Neo-Marxian state theory. -How do we navigate the intractable debate between reform and revolution? -What is a non-reformist reform? -How do socialists use the stat

Season 2 of DPS has officially wrapped. Season 3 will launch in the end of April 2019 featuring a new website, weekly YouTube videos along with articles and blog posts. In the meantime, patrons will be getting a weekly B-Side and the free feed will revisit classic episodes of DPS. This episode featuring Adam Hilton aired 1.5 years ago and serves as a valuable point of reflection for the left's strategy of using the Democratic Party as a strategic tool. Be sure to support DPS Media as we enter our third season: patreon.com/deadpundits ------------------------------- Adam Hilton, visiting lecturer in Politics at Mount Holyoke College, is on the show to talk about the history of the Democratic Party and its interaction with the left. Can the Democratic Party be used as an instrument of socialist advance? And what is the nature of the Democratic Party, anyway? Tune in to find out. Find some of Adam's writings here: -"Bernie and the Search for New Politics," https://www.jacobinmag.com/2015/06/bernie-president-u

***The following is a teaser of this week's B-Side, available in full for patrons of the Dead Pundits Society. To hear the entire episode and help support our jump to YouTube in Season 3, become a patreon supporter: http://www.patreon.com/deadpundits*** This week's B-Side features a chat with Leigh Phillips and Michal Rozworksi about their new book, The People's Republic of Wal-Mart: How the World's Biggest Corporations are Laying the Foundations for Socialism (Verso, 2019). We discuss the history, theory, and political imperative of democratic socialist planning. Check out the book here: https://www.versobooks.com/books/2822-the-people-s-republic-of-walmart ------------------------ Twitter: http://twitter.com/deadpundits Facebook: http://facebook.com/deadpunditssociety iTunes: http://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/id1212081214 Patreon: http://www.patreon.com/deadpundits YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/channel/UCHahv2fM9eH2K4TzmsWl\_Xg

Season 2 of DPS has officially wrapped. Season 3 will launch in the end of April 2019 featuring a new website, weekly YouTube videos along with articles and blog posts. In the meantime, patrons will be getting a weekly B-Side and the free feed will revisit classic episodes of DPS. This episode featuring Freddie DeBoer aired two years ago and serves as a valuable point of reflection for how far the left has come since and how far it still needs to go. Be sure to support DPS Media as we enter our third season: http://patreon.com/deadpundits ----------------- On this week’s episode, Freddie deBoer and I analyze the hyper-woke, virtue-signaling sect of the left, which has claimed an insignificant segment of cyberspace as its sovereign territory in absence of any real power in society. We also share our thoughts about campus activism, the “No Platform” technique and left censorship. Resist the allure of LARP culture and learn how to win a real socialist platform. Tune in to find out how. Freddie’s article, “Why

This is Part One of our series on neoliberalism. Joining us to break down the history, theory, and political economy of neoliberalism is Ray Kiely, Professor of Politics at Queen Mary University of London. We discuss his latest book The Neoliberal Paradox, and Ray offers some insight about what neoliberalism means for the future of both left- and right-wing political movements. The Neoliberal Paradox will be out in paperback in late summer 2019, but hardcover copies (quite pricey) can be purchased here: www.e-elgar.com/shop/the-neoliberal-paradox -- or, better yet, support your local public or university library. *** This B-Side has been unlocked thanks to the generosity of our patrons. To support this political project, become a subscriber at: http://patreon.com/deadpundits *** ----------------- Twitter: http://twitter.com/deadpundits Facebook: http://facebook.com/deadpunditssociety iTunes: http://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/id1212081214 Patreon: http://www.patreon.com/deadpundits YouTube: http://www.yout

James Meadway joins us to talk about the economics and politics of future socialist governments. James recently stepped down from his role as economic advisor to Shadow Minister of the Exchequer, John McDonnell. We discuss this experience serving as policy advisor to an MP and the ways in which a Corbyn-led Labour Party must proceed in the event it is at the helm of the British state in the coming years (or weeks!). 

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Check out some of James’s recent writings: 
 -“After the cataclysm: why we must build a new economics from the ground up,” https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/oureconomy/after-cataclysm-why-we-must-build-new-economics-ground/ 

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 *** Daniel Marans, politics reporter for Huffington Post, joins us for the latest Rundown. We discuss the growing field of candidates in the 2020 Democratic Party primary race and how they all seem to be moonwalking and/or kick-flipping away from their earlier commitments to Medicare for All… except for Bernie, of course. We discuss Beto O’Rourke’s so-called “Medicare for America” and how this development may signal difficulties for Bernie’s more radical agenda. All that and much more on this episode of The Rundown. 

 -“Bernie Sanders Tests An Updated Pitch In Once-Hostile Territory,” https://www.huffpost.com/entry/bernie-sanders-returns-to-south-carolina-2020-presidential-race_n_5c8b2407e4b03e83bdbf0761
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René Rojas is back for the B-Side. We discuss the context of the Venezuelan crisis and the future of the Bolivarian project. If you haven't yet read his excellent essay, "The Latin American Left's Shifting Tides," check it out here: https://catalyst-journal.com/vol2/no2/the-latin-american-lefts-shifting-tides *** Join the Dead Pundits Society to access the full version of this episode and receive many other subscriber benefits, as well: www.patreon.com/deadpundits *** ------------------- Find out more at: www.deadpundits.com Twitter: @deadpundits Facebook: facebook.com/deadpunditssociety iTunes: itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/id1212081214 Patreon: www.patreon.com/deadpundits

Once viewed as the beacon of the global socialist movement, Latin America's Pink Tide now seems to be receding. Joining us this week to contextualize this moment alongside earlier waves of socialist upsurge in Latin America is René Rojas, Visiting Assistant Professor of Political Science at Hobart and William Smith Colleges. We discusses Rojas's important Catalyst essay from last summer titled, "The Latin American Left's Shifting Tides," (https://catalyst-journal.com/vol2/no2/the-latin-american-lefts-shifting-tides) and provide a number of important lessons for assessing our contemporary socialist movement in the United States and beyond. -Book on Chilean Revolution mentioned by René: Peter Winn, Weavers of Revolution: The Yarur Workers and Chile's Road to Socialism (Oxford Univ Press, 1989) --------------- Dead Pundits dot com -- Coming mid-April 2019. Check out the temporary landing page at deadpundits.com *** The B-Side will be landing for patrons in a few days. Join the Dead Pundits Society today for

This week's B-Side features a conversation with Micah Uetricht about recent socialist electoral successes in Chicago and beyond. We provide the recent historical context of these victories and talk about the role of DSA and grassroots social movements in spurring them along. Further reading: -"A Good Night for Chicago Socialists," https://www.jacobinmag.com/2019/02/chicago-socialism-elections-aldermen-democratic-machine --------------------- Twitter: @deadpundits Facebook: facebook.com/deadpunditssociety iTunes: http://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/id1212081214 Patreon: www.patreon.com/deadpundits YouTube: www.youtube.com/channel/UCHahv2fM9eH2K4TzmsWl\_Xg

How do we build a robust socialist movement from below in today's democratic socialist upsurge? Micah Uetricht joins us to explain the historical role of the "militant minority" in laying the foundations for systemic change and socialism from below. We discuss how this layer of socialist cadre will be crucial in developing the capacities necessary for the success of the Bernie Sanders wave and beyond. Micah is managing editor at Jacobin Magazine. Look out for his new Jacobin podcast that will feature short chats with featured Jacobin authors. -Micah Uetricht and Barry Eidlin, "U.S. Union Revitalization and the Missing 'Militant Minority,'" Labor Studies Journal (https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/0160449X19828470). *** Join the Dead Pundits Society to catch the B-Side, which will be dropping later this week: www.patreon.com/deadpundits *** ------------------- Twitter: @deadpundits Facebook: facebook.com/deadpunditssociety iTunes: http://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/id1212081214 Patreon: www.pat

Matt Karp joins us for this week's A-Side to talk about the prospects, barriers, and pitfalls of a Bernie Sanders candidacy and what impact he's had on American politics since the 2016 Democratic Party primary race. Matt is an associate professor of history at Princeton and the author of many articles assessing the Bernie wave. Catch his recent thoughts in the latest Jacobin Magazine and in a forthcoming essay in The Nation. *** Become a member of the Dead Pundits Society to support this podcast and its political mission. You'll also get access to subscriber-only content and a partron-only forum. Sign up here: www.patreon.com/deadpundits *** ------------------------- Twitter: @deadpundits Facebook: facebook.com/deadpunditssociety iTunes: itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/id1212081214 Patreon: www.patreon.com/deadpundits YouTube: www.youtube.com/channel/UCHahv2fM9eH2K4TzmsWl\_Xg