[Classic DPS] The New Communists w/ Adaner Usmani

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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/vol1/no3/did-liberals-give-us-mass-incarceration

I also mentioned this important essay by Ralph Miliband during the interview: "Moving On," https://www.marxists.org/archive/miliband/1976/xx/moveon.htm

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