Alan returns to the subject of a guaranteed basic income and discusses its economic and political feasibility. He adds his thoughts on how a basic income could be financed.

Alan interviews Jacob Trewe, who was a delegate the to August national convention of the Democratic Socialists of America. They discuss the DSA's new platform, their relationship to the Democratic Party, voting method reform, tenant organizing, and enhancements to the DSA's organizational infrastructure.

Alan looks at some of the pros and cons of instituting a guaranteed basic income, as well as the pros and cons of a guaranteed jobs program. He also talks about whether such programs would be inflationary and how he would fund them.

Alan talks with Patty Rose of the "Spent the Rent" podcast about libertarian socialism, government power over our lives, how we came to our political views, and issues including defunding the police, a universal basic income, and the U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan.

Alan reviews the policy ideas he presented in earlier episodes and clarifies his comments about workplace democracy. He then talks about how credit unions and public banks can help support economic democracy.

Alan talks about the rights of labor in the distribution of income and control of the workplace.

Alan answers a listener's question about property rights and democracy in James Madison's Federalist #10, then discusses the impact on the founders of John Locke's ideas about the right to private property. He critiques Locke's ideas and shows why a legally sanctioned right of property would require a universal basic income as compensation to the whole community.

Alan explains why the U.S. founders' belief that democracy should be limited by property rights was mistaken, and proposes to strengthen democracy in the U.S. by adopting an alternative voting method. He evaluates the vote-for-one plurality method, top two, proportional representation, approval voting, ranked choice voting, and STAR Voting.

Democracy in the U.S. is currently under numerous threats: voter suppression, designs to overturn elections, big money choosing which candidates get to the ballot and so on. Alan looks at the origins of the idea of democracy, why the men who wrote the U.S. Constitution didn't create a democracy, and how the U.S. got to this moment of crisis.

What's wrong with the two party system, why do we have it, and what can we do about it?