Joining us this week to discuss the field of likely Democratic Party primary candidates for 2020 is Branko Marcetic, Prince Slayer and staff writer at Jacobin Magazine. We discuss his recent piece which argues that Beto O’Rourke is not the savior we’ve been looking for, and then move to a discussion of other names that have been floated in the past few weeks. 



Check out Branko’s piece here:

-“Beto O’Rourke Should Not Run for President,” https://www.jacobinmag.com/2018/12/beto-orourke-president-2020-senate-race



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Joining us this week to discuss the socialist challenge today is Leo Panitch, author of many books and long-time editor of the Socialist Register. We begin by discuss the legitimacy crisis in UK politics brought on by the Brexit negotiations and then move to a conversations about the prospects of a Labour Party alternative in Britain that can face down the realities of austerity and neoliberal globalization. Finally, Leo assesses the SYRIZA failures and connects them to the dilemmas that will be faced by UK Labour.

Find Leo’s essay “In and Against the State” (co-authored with Sam Gindin) here: https://www.redpepper.org.uk/state-of-change/

The Socialist Challenge Today: SYRIZA, Sanders, Corbyn - https://www.ipgbook.com/the-socialist-challenge-today-products-9780850367409.php?page_id=21

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Joining us this week to talk about the recent midterm elections in the United States is Daniel Marans, journalist at Huffington Post. Daniel is fresh off the campaign trail, hitting stops in far-flung places in rural and urban America, alike. Adam sat down with Daniel and chatted about his experience of talking with voters and activists during his travels.

What do we make of these election results? What does it signal for our activities leading up to 2020? Tune in to find out.

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Joining us this week to commemorate the 101st anniversary of the October Revolution is Sean Guillory, host of Sean's Russia Blog Podcast. We begin by reflecting on the 100th anniversary of the Russian Revolution; Sean offers some insights about how we ought to remember those events. Next, we move on to a conversation about the founding and the culture of the Komsomol, or the All-Union Leninist Young Communist League, and how the in-fighting inside the group offers a lot of parallels to the battles being waged inside the left in our current era.

Check out Sean's Russia Blog Podcast here: https://seansrussiablog.org/

-Read more on Sean's view of the 100th anniversary of the Russian Revolution: "Making Sense of the Russian Revolution," www.contrivers.org/articles/45/russia-revolution-sean-guillory-fitzpatrick-sunkara-miéville-suny-steinberg/

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In this juggernaut of a B-Side, Adam and Aimee begin by briefly breaking down the significance of the midterm election results. Next, they begin a wide-ranging discussion on the meaning of so-called "normie" socialism -- a term that has largely been crafted by opponents of this strategy. They break down two recent blog pieces that are representative of this anti-normie socialism and set the record straight about the meaning of democratic socialism and the role of culture and identity in our project.

Adam loses his temper on a few occasions, Alex Jones-style (but no gay frogs were harmed in the making of this episode).

The blog posts in question can be found here:

-Peter Frase, "Keep Socialism Weird," http://www.peterfrase.com/2018/10/keep-socialism-weird

-"Breaking the Norm," http://www.peterfrase.com/2018/11/breaking-the-norm/

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Joining us to talk about Trump's Council of Economic Advisor's ridiculous anti-socialism report is Matt Bruenig, founder of the People's Policy Project. We discuss the report titled, "The Opportunity Costs of Socialism," and address some of the rebuttals and cliches commonly wielded against broadly successful socialist societies.

Who's afraid of socialism and why? Tune in to find out.

Matt's latest response to the report can be found here: https://www.peoplespolicyproject.org/2018/11/05/the-white-houses-deceptive-pickup-truck-math/

Read the ridiculous report here (if you hate yourself): https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefings-statements/cea-report-opportunity-costs-socialism/

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Joining us this week to talk about the election of far right Jair Bolsonaro in Brazil is Alex Hochuli, who lives in São Paulo and hosts the Aufhebungabunga podcast. We discuss the ruling class conspiracy that led to the fall of both Lula and Dilma of the Worker's Party (PT) and the failures of the neoliberal centrists in containing the crisis that they, themselves, created. Finally, we develop "neoliberal authoritarianism" as the neo-fascism of the 21st century.

Check out some of Alex's recent writings on the topic here:

-"Bolsonaro Rising," https://thebaffler.com/latest/bolsonaro-rising-hochuli

-"Brazil presidential election: Who is Jair Bolsonaro and why is he more dangerous than Trump?" https://www.nbcnews.com/think/opinion/brazil-presidential-election-who-jair-bolsonaro-popular-candidate-more-dangerous-ncna925011

-"The Ends of Lava Jato," https://jacobinmag.com/2017/04/brazil-lava-jato-corruption-dilma-rousseff-lula-temer-mani-pulite-italy

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Joining us this week to break down Bernie Sanders' foreign policy speech is Daniel Bessner, Pyle Assistant Professor in American Foreign Policy at the University of Washington. We break down Bernie's speech delivered on October 9th and continue to build on the democratic socialist vision for foreign policy. What kind of platform should our candidates have going into 2020 and beyond? Tune in to find out.

Articles mentioned during the show:

-Daniel Bessner, "What Does Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Think About the South China Sea?" https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/17/opinion/democratic-party-cortez-foreign-policy.html

-Hal Brands, "On Foreign Policy, the Left Tries to Out-Trump Trump," https://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2018-09-26/democrats-foreign-policy-is-at-risk-of-retreating-like-trump-has

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Joining us this week to discuss the dynamics of neoliberal finance (without boring the shit out of you) is Grace Blakeley. We open the show by talking about The World Transformed conference that took place in Liverpool a few weeks ago. Next, Adam and Grace discuss the development of financialization and unpack some of the challenges it produces for a socialist transition. These topics have become far more relevant in the wake of an impending Corbyn government in Britain.

More finance for regular-ass people -- Finance for the Many.

Grace is a Research Fellow on IPPR’s Commission on Economic Justice. She is writing a book on finance that will be published by Repeater Books. You can find her on Twitter at @graceblakeley.

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This week's DPS was a live show. Our guest is Heidi Matthews, assistant professor at Osgoode Hall Law School in Toronto, Ontario. We addressed the Kavanaugh hearings and assessed the general discussion around the Supreme Court by lefties over the past several weeks.

Heidi's article, "Why the Kavanaugh hearings were a show trial gone bad," can be found here: https://theconversation.com/why-the-kavanaugh-hearings-were-a-show-trial-gone-bad-102025

Other relevant pieces:

-Sam Moyn, "Resisting the Juristocracy," https://bostonreview.net/law-justice/samuel-moyn-resisting-juristocracy

-Jedidiah Purdy (interviewed by Meagan Day) "The Courts Are Political," https://www.jacobinmag.com/2018/10/supreme-court-brett-kavanaugh-partisan-jurisprudence

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