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We’re back with Justin Roll to continue our discussion of the Truman era and the start of the Cold War. If you haven’t already, make sure to go back and listen to Episode 15.

Check out History Sucks’ four-part series on Harry Truman

Support Starbucks workers’ unionizing campaign by donating to their strike fund and signing a petition of support. Listen to Mechanical Freaks’ interview on the union campaign here.

Visit the Ending the Myth page for updates, sources, and suggested readings

Up Next: We will be supplementing our discussion of chapter 11 of The End of the Myth with a very special guest here to give us an economic update on the post-war economic boom in America and what has happened since!

Show music by Bjorn/Fleksor

Show art by Carl

Justin Roll from the History Sucks podcast joins the gang to talk Harry Truman, WWII, the 1944 DNC, and the start of the Cold War.

Check out History Sucks’ four-part series on Harry Truman

Support Starbucks workers’ unionizing campaign by donating to their strike fund and signing a petition of support. Listen to Mechanical Freaks’ interview on the union campaign here.

Visit the Ending the Myth page for updates, sources, and suggested readings

Up Next: We will be supplementing our discussion of chapter 11 of The End of the Myth with a very special guest here to give us an economic update on the post-war economic boom in America and what has happened since!

Show music by Bjorn/Fleksor

Show art by Carl

The boys from Texas are back to give you scorching hot music takes about bands from thirty years ago. Listen to the episode in its entirety on Patreon https://www.patreon.com/posts/62439389

Munya and Greg tackle foreign affairs and chart a course for the US empire out of this dangerous stalemate with Russia. Peace with honor! More importantly they’re back on the Seattle restaurant tyrant beat and try to suss out the future of crime and punishment here in the city of the future.

Munya and Brian talk about Chapter 10 of The End of the Myth and the dreaded 7-letter word, “fascism.” They discuss the material and psychological forces at play during the 1930s as well as the role of liberalism in midwifing fascism into being in Europe. They bring Rajani Palme Dutt and his 1934 book Fascism and Social Revolution into the discussion to provide some on the ground analysis of Europe in the inter-war years.

Check out Chapters 1-4 from Rajani Palme Dutt’s Fascism and Social Revolution (1934)

Visit the Ending the Myth page for updates, sources, and suggested readings

Up Next: We will have on friend of the show Justin Roll to discuss Harry Truman and the beginning of the Cold War!

Show music by Bjorn/Fleksor

Show art by Carl

Listen to the episode in its entirety on Patreon https://www.patreon.com/posts/62131345

We’re joined by a very special guest! Sydney Durkin hops aboard the proverbial boat with Greg and Munya to talk about their experience unionizing the Broadway & Denny Starbucks coffee shop, and the future of the labor movement with Starbucks Workers United.

Find our episode with Christine another badass Starbucks worker (@MyCheeseMonster): #91 Trans Commies Do Be Posting

Show your support to Starbucks workers by showing up, tweeting support, and buying coffee from unionized stores

Follow Sydney on Twitter @sovietminds

Munya and Brian discuss the class war that raged in the United States between World War I and World War II. They answer: Why was the American ruling class so obsessed with Mussolini? And, what is the best sales strategy for selling grenade launchers to Firestone? All this and more!

Visit the Ending the Myth page for updates, sources, and suggested readings

Up Next: We will be discussing Ch 10 of The End of the Myth along with the first four chapters of R Palme Dutt’s 1935 classic, Fascism and Social Revolution

Show music by Bjorn/Fleksor

Show art by Carl

Listen to the episode in its entirety on Patreon https://www.patreon.com/posts/61824065