What's Left To Do?

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There are independent journalists, and then there's Ben Norton. He relentlessly pursues the story of what western imperialism means for countries in the Global South (and beyond). But, of course, this wasn't always the case...

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We kick off our Season 2 opener with Jamie Peck, one of the left's favorite (Communist) party girls. See what I did there?

Suffice it to say that Jamie has come a long way from her alienated suburban upbringing, where she struggled socially.

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Buckle up, for a wild ride through Karthik Purushothaman's early life in his native India, where caste and class were on full display as a result of his parents' union. Before he got the bug for the arts and creative writing, he was a competitive table tennis player as a youth and went to an elite college for aerospace engineering!

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David Duhalde: Inside Man. Who hasn't he worked for? DSA, Our Revolution, union organizer, etc. David, the self professed "process troll," is the guy in the background doing the dirty work: building the left's capacity and infrastructure.

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Another excellent interview with another amazing academic! Dr. Corey Robin, Distinguished Professor of Political Science at Brooklyn College, argues that the right is very weak right now, presenting an opportunity for the left. But he also just likes to argue (not with me!), a trait he's had since childhood, growing up in Chappaqua.

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Our dearest and most gentle Ben Burgis. Michigan's native son had his folks shook for a second there, having barely graduated high school. Now, PhD in hand, you can catch him in college lecture halls and on the masthead of Jacobin.

You can listen to Ben on his own podcast, Give Them An Argument, here: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/give-them-an-argument/id1527096105

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This week we get to hear from the Pop Off Princess, Nomiki Konst! We get to learn about her Greek-American family's survival story from WWII, as well as how she overcame the instability in her early life and caught the bug for politics in 5th grade.

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I hope you're like me, in that Aaron Maté's fastidious debunking of the farcical Russiagate conspiracy kept you sane(ish) over the last 5 years. But who is the man behind all of the truth telling? Glad you asked, and that this interview gives some (of the best) answers 😉

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Margaret Kimberly is the Executive Editor of Black Agenda Report, which she co-founded with the late Bruce Dixon and Glen Ford. Many who are familiar with her work may assume that she's been on the left her entire life, but not so! It took the absurdity of the 2000 election (theft) to shake her out of lib malaise.

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The elusive, yet still somehow omnipresent, Carl Beijer is who we'll be hearing from this week. Adding to the Christian to Marxist metamorphosis we've chronicled extensively here at What's Left To Do? 😇

He grew up to be quite the standout in his conservative, Evangelical family. Also, he has a twin!?

You can read more of Carl's blogs and essays at: https://substack.com/profile/7190241-carl-beijer

He can be found on twitter @/carlbeijer