The Entry Level Left Podcast

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1:00: What is a private prison? When and why did they appear in America?

2:41: What policies mark the development of the modern prison system?

10:35: What is the prison industrial complex?

19:30: Who are the major entities responsible for the private prison system?

28:05 What are the priorities of private prisons?

31:30: What are some arguments in favor of private prisons?

42:10: What are some arguments against private prisons?

43:00: G4S https://bit.ly/1hJm3IO

43:30: CoreCivic https://bit.ly/2ST6lhZ

44:00: GeoGroup https://bit.ly/2K7rMJf

49:30: How has the profit motive of private prisons affected the working class?

52:00: Wayfair Walkout protest https://cnb.cx/2LPZFPZ

53:00: R.A.I.C.E.S  https://bit.ly/2AMfvHA

58:50: 5 Links article by Hannah K. Gold https://bit.ly/2YffBTf

59:00: The New Jim Crow https://bit.ly/1wDCBHj

59:03: For Profit Imprisonment article by Andrea Jones https://bit.ly/2Yz0wXY

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01:10: What are some historical examples of classical policing?

09:16: What social roles have police institutions played historically?

16:45: Althusser’s state apparatuses https://bit.ly/2YWgyw2

19:00: How do liberals view police institutions vs leftists?

28:30: What are some examples of police authority used against public interest?

29:00: Haymarket Square Incident https://bit.ly/2x7fQjO

32:40: Cops protecting Neo-Nazis at pride https://bit.ly/2xM9Ix9

45:05: Texas woman gets 5 years in prison for voting https://lat.ms/2SgHRyN

46:00: Why does the left say “All Cops Are Bastards?”

50:20: “The Bad Kind of Unionism” by Shawn Gude https://bit.ly/1wEXFx5

51:30: Why should the left not support police unions?

58:45: As unionism decreases, inequality increases https://bit.ly/2Fr3CJs

59:45: What is wrong with the “Blue Lives Matter” movement?

1:00:03: Black professor profiled by police https://bit.ly/2XQHYat

1:06:00: Muhammad Noor’s case https://cnn.it/2QWjtlu

1:08:00: Betty Shelby’s case https://wapo.st/2LmXNib

1:10:00: Albert Wilson’s case https://bit.ly/2XQjyc7

1:11:00: What might an alternative to militarized policing look like?

1:17:15: PoC comprised 38.5% of the population, but 51.5% of YLL 

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1:19: What is white supremacy?

3:05: 2018 domestic terrorists were mostly right wing https://bit.ly/2B8OCeJ

6:03: What are some examples of white supremacist movements?

11:45: What motivates white supremacy?

23:20: Alyssa Milano getting dunked on by Left Twitter https://bit.ly/2JfXNgz

30:52: Racial biases in economic and social interactions https://bit.ly/2xbU0M7

36:15: Lee Atwater and the GOP’s racist strategy: https://bit.ly/2LsqFFa

38:00: The cost of Japanese internment during WW2 https://bit.ly/2FIF4cy

42:30: Abe Lincoln on deporting free slaves https://bit.ly/2XjlBKa

44:45: How do liberals view the intersection of capital & white supremacy?

52:05: What is white privilege and how is it embedded in Western society?

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1:05: What are the essential processes of an economy?

2:15: What is essential to production in an economy?

4:23: What are 3 types of values associated with economic production?

10:23: What is Marx’s law of value or the labor theory of value?

18:55: What is “the tendency of the rate of profit to fall?”

25:15: What is a labor union?

28:45: Delta Airlines’ anti-Union propaganda https://lat.ms/2KpqXfy

29:50: Unionized workers tend to make more money https://cnnmon.ie/2MtBUiN

33:00: What is the purpose of a labor union?

36:29: The UPS strike of 1997 https://bit.ly/2HTwEAI

37:00: What is a scab?

38:30: How do scabs undermine labor organizing?

41:55: What are the strengths and weaknesses of unions?

55:15: What were some major victories for labor in the 19th century?

56:50: The Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938 https://bit.ly/2xkInUp

1:05:00 What role has the left played in labor organizing in the U.S?

1:06:50: The Taft-Hartley Act https://bit.ly/2wDgiWe

1:10:30: Organizing a union in your workplace: https://bit.ly/2taxsZH

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0:00: Clip: A Blueprint for building wealth

1:19: What is capital accumulation?

2:27: What types of capital can be accumulated?

3:45: Socialism means Jar-Jar Binks Lollipops for all https://bit.ly/2HuKl92

12:40: What factors contribute to growth in a capitalist economy?

18:18 What are the crises associated with over-accumulation of capital?

21:08: Why did Marx believe that capital tends to accumulate in few hands?

27:25: What are some characteristics of capitalism in decline?

37:39: According to Marx, what are the origins of capital accumulation?

39:51: Origin of the Family, Private Property & State https://bit.ly/2PT0oOJ

41:20: Margie Thatcher’s Housing Act of 1980 https://bit.ly/2WjqBxc

43:33: How does uneven development intersect with capital accumulation?

1:00:00: What is new urbanism?

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01:25 What is uneven development? https://bit.ly/2aDmqkh

03:00: "Uneven development” via Rostow’s Stages https://bit.ly/2gC2hjP

07:36: How is uneven development related to imperialism and colonialism?

11:40: How Europe Underdeveloped Africa by Walter Rodney https://bit.ly/2JhgzWB

16:32: What are the scopes and causes of uneven development?

20:25: What is the legacy of uneven development today?

20:35: Case studies of uneven development in Zambia and Tanzania https://bit.ly/2H2PxR4

22:15: Structural Adjustments of the IMF or World Bank cause poverty https://bit.ly/1qfKSOl

26:10: Thomas Sankara on foreign aid https://bit.ly/2VSv9u6

29:30: Therapy is less effective for people in poverty https://bit.ly/2JypKmD

30:00: Socioeconomic status correlating with social outcomes https://bit.ly/2J3jVgw

31:45: How does capitalism enable market attitudes that trend toward uneven development?

36:00: Capitalist market logic applied to West Virginia https://bit.ly/2H51khO

36:02: Richard Ojeda, milquetoast orange-man-bad liberal https://bit.ly/2VNWcXx

49:05: Gentrification and the Real Estate State by Samuel Stein https://bit.ly/2WEcI9y

51:20: New Urbanism: https://bit.ly/2gGaaq0

56:50: Boyle Heights gentrification protests https://bit.ly/2H5Pt21

59:30: Betsy DeVos privatizing education https://bit.ly/2J34x3D

1:06:00: Eagle’s Landing in Atlanta, GA https://bit.ly/2V7wnxa

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00:20: Former CIA Director admits U.S meddles in foreign elections. https://bit.ly/2XzoqTe

01:23: What is Imperialism?

05:58: Why is Imperialism still a relevant topic for leftist discussion?

08:03: Elliott Abrams, imperialist chore boy extraordinaire. https://bit.ly/2DCo5ry

09:46: Kant’s racism influenced Western academia for centuries. https://bit.ly/2GqU8Ll

11:39: Herbert Spencer’s Social Darwinism: A culture of race realism. https://bit.ly/2IOtq23

13:25: What are some historical examples of imperialism?

16:54: How is imperialism different from colonialism in concept?

20:22: Edward Said: Orientalism https://bit.ly/2XFI401

21:11: What are contemporary examples of imperialism?

22:43: Soft power and hard power. https://bit.ly/2UzbPgW

23:15: The U.S has hundreds of foreign military bases. https://bit.ly/2VW2LUY

28:40: Rubio tweets about Gaddafi’s brutalization to provoke Maduro. https://hrld.us/2UMrNcq

30:45: Gassing Kurds? U.S sleeps. Saddam invades Kuwait: Real shit? https://bit.ly/2JYBf23

31:33:  Observers confirm legitimacy of elections in Venezuela. https://bit.ly/2Vnzgy4

33:15: Max Blumenthal debunks imperialist propaganda in Venezuela. https://bit.ly/2Tdlk8S

36:26: U.S doing the same to Venezuela as done to Mosaddegh in Iran. https://bit.ly/1snDH2Q

36:32: U.S did the same thing in El Salvador with Allende. https://bit.ly/23R15Lk

37:00: Confessions of an Economic Hitman by John Perkins. https://bit.ly/2IC31VT

37:45: General Smedley Butler, actual economic hitman.https://bit.ly/1QLdBbl

38:28: Coca Cola hired hired death squads in Columbia. https://bit.ly/2IRjPYn

39:00: How does capitalism ultimately produce neo-imperial regimes?

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02:07: George Orwell on contemporary Fascism https://bit.ly/1eFboGp

03:26: What are definitions of Fascism past and present?

09:37: What are some specific characteristics of Fascism as an ideology?

10:33: Cranks in academia; Gregor, The Fascist Persuasion in Radical Politics 

18:42: Robert Paxton’s The Anatomy of Fascism https://bit.ly/1M4CTbS

22:49: Productive & Parasitic Capitalism: How did fascists view capitalism?

31:25: Are fascist conceptions of Marxism accurate?

35:00: Just how “fascist” is Donald Trump? https://wapo.st/2Im1nXv

41:00: Good faith and bad faith arguments

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01:25: Global Warming & Climate Change https://goo.gl/eRWggv

03:34: “There is no ethical consumption under late capitalism.”

05:38: 100 corporations are responsible for 70% of emissions https://goo.gl/qo5e7D

06:45: Environmentalists should be decidedly anti-capitalist.

07:20: How should leftists consider the environment?

12:20: Kevin P. Martyn, Ph.D. candidate in Geography at USF https://goo.gl/xCs5Tz

13:25: What do environmentalists need to know about capitalism?

18:25: Are individual lifestyle changes sufficient to avoid climate change?

22:00: Is capitalism compatible with environmentalism?

22:30: Green Capitalism: The God that Failed by Richard Smith https://goo.gl/JhLCKv

24:00: “Green-washing” the status quo https://goo.gl/xirVLr

27:35: Whither Socialism by Joseph Stiglitz https://goo.gl/yAogqA

33:30: Can language about environmentalism become “gentrified?”

35:35: Frank Luntz and the “Death Tax” https://goo.gl/hfwvDN

38:10: What Every Environmentalist Needs to Know about Capitalism https://goo.gl/PtDUSH

40:53: David Wallace-Wells’ The Uninhabitable Earth https://goo.gl/roxUmC

43:50: The Green New Deal politic: The particulars do matter

49:27: Are there direct consequences of climate change if not addressed now?

49:50: IPCC Timeline of Climate Change impact https://goo.gl/5gxsoL

56:10: Are there any candidates for 2020 that can address climate change nationally?

1:02:44: How can people get involved and help address climate change politically?

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00:25: What is “neoliberalism?” https://goo.gl/cKPmqk

04:05: A Brief History of Neoliberalism by David Harvey ISBN-10: 0199283273

07:10: What is “austerity?” https://goo.gl/qGjKDD

08:30: Is GDP vs. debt a comprehensive and accurate analysis for social progress?

10:22: What cultural ethics or attitudes arise from neoliberal economic policies?

17:40: The cultural mythos of trickle down economic policy.

20:46: Inequality increases as union membership decreases. https://goo.gl/Q7R81q

20:50: Labor share of profit decreases as corporate share rises. https://goo.gl/qquB9W

23:25: Wage stagnation in 9 charts: https://goo.gl/P9N6mr

24:00: How did neoliberal economic ideology intersect with the 2008 housing crash?

37:30: The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism by Naomi Klein

41:00: What is “creative destruction” under Neoliberalism as David Harvey explains?

46:00: The legacy of the Neoliberal project in Venezuela

50:10: What are the differences between Neoliberalism in theory vs. in practice?

01:01:17: The 1973 Oil Crisis, 1979 Oil Crisis & OAPEC: https://goo.gl/xXLtT8

01:02:20: The use of state power to discipline local and foreign economies

01:16:30: Alan Greenspan admits neoliberal capitalism didn’t work: https://goo.gl/AWL5fF

01:17:00: The Neoconservative response to Neoliberal economic policies.