Jacobin Show: Neoliberalism and Depoliticization w/ Felix Biederman & Gary Gerstle
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The History of the Information Scene in the Twenty-First Century
The fall of communism and the fall of the soviet union was a spectacular collapse that no one saw coming. This is also a period when those who thought of themselves as being on the left, not knowing how to reorganize the economy on a socialist foundation, began to define their leftism in new terms. And what if you're a leftist in the 19 nineties? What are you to do exactly? I don't think weand who's the we here? We as activists, we as scholars, a i don't Think we have adequately reckoned with the impact of that collapse and the disappearance of communism from the world.
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