Dan interviews the makers of a new podcast series telling the history of the Iraq War.

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We cover chapters one and two — "Members Unlimited" and "Christian Apollyon" — on this week's episode. Rachel Foxley, a professor of history at the University of Reading and author of The Levellers: Radical Political Thought in the English Revolution, joins us to talk about the English Revolution.

Secondary Reading:

Rachel Foxley, The Levellers (Manchester University Press, 2013).

Christopher Hill, The Experience of Defeat (Verso, 2017).

Peter Linebaugh and Marcus Rediker, The Many-Headed Hydra (Verso, 2014).

CB Macpherson, The Political Theory of Possessive Individualism (Oxford University Press, 2011).

Barrington Moore, Jr., Social Origins of Dictatorship and Democracy (Beacon Press, 1993).

Ellen Meiksins Wood, Democracy Against Capitalism (Cambridge University Press, 1995).

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Dan interviews historian Kim Phillips-Fein about her book Fear City: New York's Fiscal Crisis and the Rise of Austerity Politics and about how the destruction of social democracy made today's city where coronavirus is killing its poor and working-class people.

In other news: Dan's Jacobin essay on keeping the Bernie infrastructure alive is here and the volunteer petition to do so, which you should sign, is here.

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Welcome to Casualties of History, a podcast from Jacobin magazine. We’ll be working our way through EP Thompson’s The Making of the English Working Class. In this first episode, Alex and Gabe introduce themselves and cover the book’s preface, as well as outline the context in which it was written. Who was Thompson, and what was he aiming to do in writing this book? Who was he arguing with, and why?

Reference is made to secondary literature:

Perry Anderson, “Origins of the Present Crisis,” New Left Review 1, no. 23 (Jan-Feb 1964).

EP Thompson, “The Peculiarities of the English,” Socialist Register (1965).

Thompson, “Time, Work Discipline, and Industrial Capitalism,” Past & Present no. 38 (Dec 1967).

Frederick Cooper, “Work, class and empire: An African historian's retrospective on E. P. Thompson,” Social History 20, no. 2 (1995).

Geoff Eley, A Crooked Line (University of Michigan, 2006).

Madeleine Davis, “Reappraising British socialist humanism,” Journal of Political Ideologies 18, no. 1 (2013).

Davis, “Edward Thompson's Ethics and Activism 1956–1963: Reflections on the Political Formation of The Making of the English Working Class,” Contemporary British History 28, no. 4 (2014).

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