Why Socialism Wins in Chicago
Four of the five candidates endorsed by the Chicago Democratic Socialists of America either won outright or advanced to the runoff election on April 2, leading to talk of a …
Bad Objects with Andrea Long Chu and Marissa Brostoff
Marissa Brostoff and Andrea Long Chu discuss Sex and the City and The X-Files, unraveling the tangled history of Marxism and queer theory, Cynthia Nixon the democratic socialist versus Miranda …
The Left Knows No Borders with Richard Seymour
How unlucky it was for Angela Nagle to make her so-called left case against immigration the same week that Hillary Clinton reprised her neoliberal case for border crackdowns. In reality, …
Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor on the Life of Howard Zinn
View Transcript Historian Howard Zinn remains a model for left-wing intellectuals who want to not only convey ideas to a public beyond academia but also take action to transform the …
Sawant on Socialism Against the Amazonification of Seattle
Socialist Alternative’s Kshama Sawant was elected to Seattle City Council way before socialism became a cool thing. Today, Dan’s talking to Sawant about how socialists can build power and win at …
Lessons from the New Left with Max Elbaum
Let’s ensure that the history of American socialism doesn’t repeat as farce. That’s one reason that Max Elbaum wrote Revolution in the Air: Sixties Radicals Turn to Lenin, Mao and …
Beyond Economism with Nancy Fraser
View Transcript Legendary critical theorist Nancy Fraser argues that a total analysis of capitalism requires taking Marxism beyond a narrowly economistic view. Throughout its history, capitalism has been defined not …
Eco-Socialism and the Climate Crisis
Today’s episode is a long one. It’s the first of two this week on climate politics: a live event that I hosted at Verso Books in New York a couple …
Boots Riley on Sorry to Bother You and Communism
Sorry to Bother You is a hilarious film about the dead serious shitiness of life under neoliberalism’s flexibilized and precarious labor regime, a system teetering upon a thin line between …
Telling a New Story with George Monbiot
A laundry list of modest policy solutions is not enough, it turns out. It’s not just that technocratic fixes-around-the-edges spectacularly fail to meet people’s needs; in failing to articulate a …