[Classic DPS] Structural Reforms and Socialist Strategy w/ Ed Rooksby

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

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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 state to support worker's self-activity outside the state?

-TUNE IN TO FIND OUT!

Check out Ed’s essay, “‘Structural Reform’ & the Problem of Socialist Strategy Today”: https://edrooksby.wordpress.com/2018/03/21/structural-reform-the-problem-of-socialist-strategy-today/

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