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- #23 - What's the matter with Sweden?
In which Daraka teaches an insightful, in-depth minicourse on the current troubles of the Swedish social Democratic Party and the European left generally.
Music credit: Ebba Grön - "Staten och kapitalet"1 hr 15 min - #22 - Undemocratic socialism: when does it become a cult
In which DARAKA and Dick explore and debate ways to oppose authoritarian leftisms, and the history of Leninism. Communism, anti-communism and anti-anti communism
Music credit: Pete Seeger - "Die Gedanken Sind Frei"1 hr 11 min - #21 - Kuttner: why freedom needs a socialist turn
In which one of our foremost liberal journalists, Bob Kuttner, explains to Daraka and Dick why he’s taken a turn toward socialism
Music credit: Pete Seeger - "Banks of Marble" (song by Les Rice)58 min - #20 - Is there progressive patriotism?
In which Daraka and Dick ask 'What is America to us'? Is there a progressive patriotism?
Music credit: John McCutheon - "Our Flag Was Still There" and Paul Robeson - "The House I Live In"50 min - #19 - WTF is socialism
In which Daraka and Dick do a deep and stimulating dive into the eternal question: WTF is socialism anyway?
Music credit: Roy Zimmerman - "Socialist!"59 min - #18 - Wrestling with race & class
In which Daraka & Dick explore how politically class & race have at times come together to shape progressive organizing and programs.
Music credit: Josh White - "Bad Housing Blues"46 min - #17 - Socialism in the U.S.A.
In which Daraka and Dick definitively explain socialism's history and fate in the USA.
Music credit: Monsieur Jack - "Commonwealth of Toil"
1 hr 4 min - #16 - Season Two Kick-off: Socialism and its Discontents
In which Daraka and Dick offer definitions and give historical context for 'socialism', 'capitalism', 'liberalism', providing a foundation for season 2 which we call 'Socialism and its Discontents'.
Music credit: Leyla McCalla - "The Capitalist Blues"46 min - #15 - Season one breakdown (pt 2) - prospects for a people's party
In which Daraka and Dick highlight some of the main takeaways from
season one focusing on the vision of making the Democratic Party a people’s party.
Part two of a two-part conversation.
Music credit: Patti Smith - "People Have the Power"31 min - #14 - Season one breakdown (pt 1) - prospects for a people's party
In which Daraka and Dick highlight some of the main takeaways from
season one focusing on the vision of making the Democratic Party a people’s party.
Part one of a two-part conversation.
Music credit: Patti Smith - "People Have the Power"32 min
About Talking Strategy, Making History
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Each episode will focus on a different aspect or example of the general theme. Our kick-off frame is the awkward position that progressives find themselves in. It seems obvious, at least to a significant portion of Leftists, that “working within the Democratic Party” has to be part of any realistic strategy for making substantive, social democratic or radical change in the United States. What is far less clear is what this means practically, in terms of organization and elections. For many years, the slogan of the Left has been to work both “inside and outside” the Democratic Party. But what does that “inside” part actually look like?
The podcast project comes from our experience as progressive activists--and from the urgency of now. Dick Flacks taught sociology at UC Santa Barbara and Umiversity of Chicago for 60 years. He's of the founding generation of Students for a Democratic Society and helped write the Port Huron Statement (along with Tom Hayden and the big Lebowski). He and his late wife Mickey recntly published a memoir of their lives--political and personal. It's called MAKING HISTORY/MAKING BLINTZES: HOW TWO RED DIAPER BABIES FOUND EACH OTHER AND DISCOVERED AMERICA. He's written a lot about the American Left--most notably MAKING HISTORY: THE AMERICAN LEFT AND THE AMERICAN MIND. His weekly radio show called'The Culture of Protest' can be heard 6 pm Thursdays on www.kcsb.org.
Daraka Larimore-Hall is vice-chair of the Democratic Party of California and a political and organizational consultant working primarily for social democratic parties and trade unions abroad. A lifelong political activist, Daraka first met Dick when he was in Jr High School, and first getting involved in local progressive politics in Santa Barbara. Since then, Daraka has been a national leader and staffer for DSA, a board member of the International Union of Socialist Youth, an activist and elected officer of United Auto Workers Local 2865, as well as active in the Democratic Party at all levels. He received his PhD, supervised by Dr. Flacks, in 2013.
Per Hoel is the producer/director of our effort. Per helped found the DSA chapter in Santa Barbara in the aftermath of the Sanders campaign in 2016. He's a professional videographer and multimedia designer and works in instructional design.
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