Jacobin Radio

Legendary feminist scholar Silvia Federici discusses the formation of the modern proletariat, the rise of capitalism and the persecution of women as witches, the relationship between capitalism, divisions, and differentiation, the rise of the carceral public welfare system, the historical context of the heretics movement, the enormity of the witch hunt and violence against women, exploring pre-modern cosmologies, scientific rationalism and the witch hunts, feminism in Latin America and the challenge to church influence, and recognition of Sylvia Federici's contributions and call for support.

Dan discusses the history of black politics in the US—left, nationalist, liberal, and neoliberal—with Michael Dawson.Check out New Dawn, Michael's podcast on race and capitalism: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/new-dawn/id1213696020Thanks to Verso Books. Check out their huge selection of left-wing titles at www.versobooks.comPlease support this podcast with your money at Patreon.com/TheDig

We need a Green New Deal to stop climate catastrophe. Everybody knows this. But housing has to be a key piece of the GND, as Daniel Aldana Cohen argues in the Spring 2019 issue of Jacobin on housing. Daniel Aldana Cohen is an assistant professor of sociology at the University of Pennsylvania, where he directs the Socio-Spatial Climate Collaborative and coauthor, with Alyssa Battistoni, Kate Aronoff, and Thea Riofrancos, of A Planet to Win: Why We Need a Green New Deal from Verso Books. The four of them also coedit the Green New Deal series at Jacobin.Buy a copy of our housing issue, "Home Improvement," here: https://jacobinmag.com/<wbr />issue/home-improvementRead Daniel's articles for Jacobin here: https://jacobinmag.com/<wbr />author/daniel-aldana-cohenRead our Green New Deal series here: https://jacobinmag.com/<wbr />series/green-new-deal

Journalist Yasha Levine on the “democracy” demos in Moscow: for a flossier neoliberalism. Then, Maria Luisa Mendonça, director of Rede Social de Justiça e Direitos Humanos (Network for Social Justice and Human Rights) in Brazil on the Amazon fires: who’s setting them, why, and what can be done.

Writer Brian Hioe updates us on the Hong Kong protests. Then, Kavita Krishnan, secretary of the All India Progressive Women's Association (AIPWA), on India’s ongoing crackdown in Kashmir

Heidi Sloan is a member of the Democratic Socialists of America running for Congress in Texas's 25th district. She's challenging a Republican incumbent, used car salesman, and incredibly rich person Roger Williams. Sloan recently sat down to talk about her story, her work with homeless people in Texas, how she came to join the DSA, her socialist political vision, and which corporate supervillain she would most like to grill as a member of the House of Representatives. Read more about Heidi at her website: https://heidifor25.<wbr />com/

Guest host Astra Taylor interviews Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz about Indigenous people's history to reexamine all of history, the present, and our possible futures.Thanks to Verso. Check out their huge selection of left-wing titles at www.versobooks.comPlease support this podcast with your money at Patreon.com/TheDig

Ordinary language is the sound of hegemony; it is also an archive of the struggles to overturn it. Language is an institution and a constantly emergent field of struggle; it is the product of power relations and it is also itself power relations. Dan interviews John Patrick Leary, the author of Keywords: The New Language of Capitalism.Thanks to Verso. Check out their huge selection of left-wing titles at www.versobooks.comSupport this podcast with your money at Patreon.com/TheDig

The question of how socialists should engage with the labor movement has always been a critical one. One proposal: the rank-and-file strategy, which the Democratic Socialists of America adopted in its recent convention. But what is it? Labor sociologist Barry Eidlin explains. Barry Eidlin is an assistant professor of sociology at McGill University in Montreal and the author of Labor and the Class Idea in the United States in Canada. Read Barry's short explainer on the rank-and-file strategy here: https://www.jacobinmag.<wbr />com/2019/03/rank-and-file-<wbr />strategy-union-organizing Read Barry and Micah's article on the "militant minority" here: https://journals.<wbr />sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/<wbr />0160449X19828470 (Behind an academic paywall, but message Barry or Micah on social media to get a PDF of it) Read Kim Moody's 2000 pamphlet on the strategy here: https://www.jacobinmag.<wbr />com/2018/08/unions-socialists-<wbr />rank-and-file-strategy-kim-<wbr />moody Buy Barry's excellent book here: https://www.indiebound.<wbr />org/book/9781107514416?aff=<wbr />TomLutz

<font color="#000000">Suzi talks to UCLA law professor </font>Gary Blasi, a longtime housing activist and advocate for the homeless about the staggering increase in homelessness in LA city and county (indeed across the country). But there are misconceptions about what is driving this surge in people living on the streets. Put simply, says Blasi, homeless people are homeless because they cannot afford housing, mostly in neighborhoods where they have grown up. We get Blasi's analysis of the scope of homelessness, the effectiveness — or lack thereof —of city, county, and state measures to deal with it, as well as what more can be done. Suzi then talks to author and activist Paul Buhle about his graphic biography of the American socialist and labor leader Eugene V. Debs— one of the most important Americans of the twentieth century according to Bernie Sanders, who also called Debs “the most effective and popular leader that the American working class has ever had.” We hear about Debs’s life, ideas, and struggles as a fighting union leader of the Pullman railroad strike and Socialist Party leader who was jailed for opposing World War I and ran for president from prison, winning over a million votes.