Pamela and Sophia discuss the recent episode of The Dig, a podcast from Jacobin magazine, featuring a roundtable discussion on the Bernie 2020 campaign and what a Sanders presidency would mean for the American left, including Jacobin founder Bhaskar Sunkara and assistant editor Alex Press. We play some clips, discuss, and ask some critical questions about the Democratic Socialists of America’s political strategy. On the second segment, we reflect on the first Platypus German Conference in Leipzig (January, 2020). Our members, Jim Kallenberg (Vienna) and two of the Leipzig organizers, Clint Montgomery and Henry Mitko, join us to discuss the crisis of Neoliberalism and the paralysis on the German left.

Platypus German Conference Recordings:

01/24

Teach-In: Sexual Liberation by Stefan Hain

https://archive.org/details/00downloadssr079ms1

Panel: Democracy and the left

https://archive.org/details/demokratieunddielinke

Panelists: Stefan Hain: Platypus Member | Prof. Dr. Klaus Dörre: Professor Work-, Industy- and Economic Sociology | Dennis Graemer: Association for the Design of History | Max Hauer: Member of translib Leipzig

01/25

Teach-In: What was the New Deal by Clint Montgomery

https://archive.org/details/whatwasthenewdeal

Panel: Crisis of Neoliberalism

https://archive.org/details/25.01crisisofneoliberalism/25.01+Crisis+of+Neoliberalism.mp3

Panelists: Ingar Solty, Rosa-Luxemburg-Stiftungs Speaker For Peace and Safety Politics, author & social scientist | P.D. Jan Gerber, guest professor for critical research of society at the Justus-Liebig- Universität Gießen | Stefan Bollinger, political scientist and historian | Annika Klose: Landesvorsitzende der Jusos Berlin, Mitglied der Grundwertekommission der SPD