The Entry Level Left Podcast

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Mat's friend and our special guest Kelcey Duggan comes on to talk with us about her work as a policy analyst, abolitionist, & researcher focused on community safety and justice.

5:25: Why do leftists consider police to be “class traitors?”

10:00: Oakland mothers evicted https://bit.ly/33phD2J

12:30: How are typical labor unions different from police unions?

14:40: Chicago police academy approved https://bit.ly/2WtsYwW

18:00: Police unions hold asymmetrical power over the working class

35:00: Kelcey’s Community Resource Hub https://bit.ly/3ddMuDZ

36:30: Massachusetts Bail Fund https://bit.ly/3b86mGH

37:05: Kelcey’s paper on ending cash bail https://bit.ly/3d4y9tg

39:30: Seattle PD sues to fight oversight https://bit.ly/390aEyn

42:10: Police unions shield officers from accountability https://reut.rs/3b75YIa

47:15: Which cities are leading the charge on criminal justice reform?

51:50: Has U.S culture imposed the idea that police are above the law?

Follow Kelcey on Twitter @k_duggan_

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18:45: The Democratic Party Devours Itself https://nyti.ms/3avIyMi

19:30: David Brooks wrong on Bernie https://bit.ly/3awErjs

20:15: Washington Post’s disguised civility politic https://wapo.st/38pfwg6

22:00: Bernie was right about Cuba https://cnn.it/2x3gRft

36:00: Democratic Party Leaders willing to sabotage party to beat Bernie https://nyti.ms/2IjpzZt

38:45: Mayo Pete on Twitter https://bit.ly/2Tma2yr

39:00: Florida Dems suing to get Bernie off ballot https://politi.co/3arC3dC

41:00: Billionaire rapist Harvey Weinstein donates most to Hillary https://bit.ly/2xbXaSW

43:00: Hillary Clinton set to make her own podcast https://politi.co/2wt6P79

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1:00: How has inequality in America impacted the education system?

8:55: A Nation At Risk https://bit.ly/2PvX8eG

11:40: How has the U.S education policy been shaped by neoliberal capitalism?

15:30: Learning to Labor by Paul Willis https://bit.ly/32y0mUt

21:00: ITT Tech, Everest University, and the commodification of education

26:50: How does a focus on test-taking affect critical thinking skills?

30:00: Schooling In Capitalist America by Bowles & Gintis https://rb.gy/1s0s8k

36:00: How does an unequal education system create market opportunities?

46:00: What are the differences between public, private, and charter schools?

1:04:50: How does the U.S education system reinforce bourgeois ideology?

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08:15: Medicare for All cost-benefit analysis: https://bit.ly/2vX3FZ0

13:15: CNN refraining from airing the Iowa results: https://bit.ly/3bsuLr8

17:25: Popular vote fan Pete loses to guy with more votes https://bit.ly/38egzAh

21:30: Shadow App,  ACRONYM, and Pete’s transparent corruption https://bit.ly/37ch64g

24:00: NYT reporting gross inaccuracies in Iowa: https://nyti.ms/3bswkW2

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2:32: What do we mean by manufactured consent?

3:10: The five filters of editorial bias https://bit.ly/2SesBCU

7:00: 90% of media controlled by 6 companies https://to.pbs.org/3755bFC

10:00: Corporate journalism is an oxymoron.

10:40: Peter Thiel’s fight with Gawker https://bit.ly/2GSLK88

11:30: Manufacturing Consent: The Political Economy of the Mass Media https://bit.ly/3beIkdF

17:00: Matt Taibii on Noam Chomsky https://bit.ly/2Sn5lTr

25:00 The media framing of Soleimani https://wapo.st/2umBHp7

30:00 Juan Guaido bankrolled by the CIA https://bit.ly/2uaWhcf

32:00 CIA coup against Iran’s Mossadegh https://n.pr/3bhzbBt

35:25: Lieberman’s Cursed Liberal Opinion https://on.wsj.com/396gJJW

46:30: Samuel Sinyangwe’s cursed take https://bit.ly/2SnoyEg

50:50: Literal king of the week: Mike Prysner of PSL https://bit.ly/2Upxz2r

54:45: Washington Post having a normal one https://wapo.st/2S1DZmS

1:05:30: Friends of the pod, Communist Killer Dolphins https://bit.ly/31q7rG4

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1:30:  Communist elected to city council of Ashland, WI https://bit.ly/2ZewLOl

2:55: Wahsayah talks about his journey through leftist politics

8:55: Wahsayah talks to us about the specifics of his experience with his tribe

14:30: The electoral journey for city councilman and Wahsayah’s platform

18:15: Restrictive minimum wage laws in Ashland, WI

22:00: Wahsayah’s political platform for city councilman 

24:00: The effect of the affordable housing crisis in WI

30:00: The organization process for election

39:00: Wahsayah dunks on anti-gun comments from Republicans

49:00: Are electoral politics sufficient to enact socialism?

52:00: Wahsayah’s thoughts on the Epstein case

57:00: White supremacist killings: Mental illness or ideology?

1:06:00: Wahsayah recommends reading Lenin https://bit.ly/2ZiCGSd

1:07:00: The Invention of Capitalism by Michael Perelman https://bit.ly/35QFAQD

1:10:00: The Communist Current: https://bit.ly/34KyYSB

1:11:00: Wahsayah For City Council: https://bit.ly/2EMu3WG

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00:35: What role does marketing play in capitalist society?

00:45: The 4 “P’s” of marketing https://bit.ly/2O8xc8G

09:00: The deceitfulness of branding and the illusion of choice

18:40: 10 companies control the food industry https://bit.ly/2KJrpoa

20:20: Soy farming threatens indigenous people and the Amazon https://bit.ly/2O6uzUW

26:40: Patents and the myth that innovation can only happen under capitalism

29:30: The vast majority of risk involved in innovation is financed by public money

38:00: How does marketing reinforce the status quo of bourgeois state power?

41:00: Woke brands and product placement as a form of psychological coercion

43:00: The ineptitude of reactionaries brand boycotting and voting with your wallet

44:00: Corporations model their expression of ethics based on profitability of culture

45:00: The ELL gang goes off on a drunken tangent

49:00: How corporations sell your nostalgia back to you for profit

53:00: Leftists buying Che Guevara shirts off Amazon: A Moral Predicament 

54:00: Woke meta twitter politics: brands roasting other brands on Twitter

55:00: Arby’s Curly Fry Caucus of the DSA

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1:16: What is a “Social Justice Warrior?”

12:27: What is political correctness and how has the right wing weaponized it?

33:00: Representation without economic justice is not a coherent political platform!

34:30: What are identity politics? 

40:21: What is call-out or cancel culture?

42:30: Our commentary on the Contrapoints scandal 

44:00: The toxicity of cancel culture and punitive forms of justice

46:15: DSA convention liberal idpol antics

50:00: Restorative vs. punitive forms of justice

57:40: ¡Listener questions!

Anthony asks: Did you have an event that radicalized you as an anti-capitalist?

Jessica asks: How should the left build unity and solidarity in the coming years?

Luiza asks: How have identity movements been co-opted?

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In this episode, we welcome Sam Bowden, PhD candidate and adjunct professor at Rutgers University to the show to talk about feminism, capitalism, and socialism! See her Rutger's profile here: https://bit.ly/2kkDgPr

1:55: What is feminism both generally and personally? Why is feminism important?

3:30: “Feminism Is For Everybody” by Bell Hooks https://bit.ly/1NSE4jx

8:11: What does every feminist need to know about capitalism? 

14:50: How should we define intersectionality or intersectional feminism?

17:45: The Combahee River Collective https://bit.ly/2oUY6nP

22:30: What is “third wave” feminism?

26:50: Louise Kneeland on feminism and socialism https://bit.ly/2kkEjPo

28:00: What does a more socialist form of feminism look like?

38:45: Terrorist Assemblages: Homonationalism by Jasbir Puar https://tinyurl.com/y46emgsb

39:39: How should the left understand identity as it intersects with social class?

46:30: What is leftist intersectionality vs. liberal, postmodern intersectionality?

53:20: How should the left respond to identity politics?

Suggested reading:

Women, Race, and Class by Angela Davis https://bit.ly/2EgOtaU

https://bit.ly/2RW95u6

Black Marxism by Cedric Robinson https://bit.ly/2lXszCM

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1:05: What are “civility politics?”

2:00: ICG definition of civility in government https://bit.ly/2PeCkX1

7:25: Trump attacks Elijah Cummings https://bit.ly/2LdBKrZ

10:40: How are civility politics employed to pacify the working class?

11:05: Assata Shakur’s quote https://bit.ly/2ZtJcIx

21:00: Have American politics become too polarized?

32:40: What are the goals of civility as a political program?

34:45: Majority of violent terrorism linked to right wing ideology https://bit.ly/2S6yrYT

45:00 Puerto Rico protests https://abcn.ws/2MJkEW2

50:00: How did Obama’s presidency outline the hypocrisy of civility? 

56:00: How does civility and centrism reinforce neoliberal capitalist ideology?

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