Dig: The New Democrats w/ Lily Geismer
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🗓️ 5 June 2022
⏱️ 129 minutes
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Summary
Dan's second episode with historian Lily Geismer, who he interviewed in 2019 about Don't Blame Us: Suburban Liberals and the Transformation of the Democratic Party. This interview is on Left Behind: The Democrats' Failed Attempt to Solve Inequality, which details the long history of Clintonism and the Democrats’ neoliberal turn.
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| 0:00.0 | This episode of The Dig is brought to you by our listeners who support us at patreon.com |
| 0:05.4 | and by Haymarketbooks, which has loads of great left-wing titles, perfect for dig listeners |
| 0:10.9 | like you. |
| 0:12.5 | One that you might like is A Revolutionary For Our Time, The Walter Rodney Story, by Leo |
| 0:18.0 | Zelig. |
| 0:19.7 | Walter Rodney was a scholar, working-class militant, and revolutionary from Guyana, strongly influenced |
| 0:26.4 | by Marxist ideas, and having lived through numerous socialist experiments in the 1960s |
| 0:32.2 | and 1970s, he remains central to radical pan-Africanist thought. |
| 0:37.2 | In this book, the first full-length study of Rodney's life, Leo Zelig critically considers |
| 0:42.8 | Rodney's contribution to Marxist theory and history, and the contemporary significance |
| 0:48.5 | of his work. |
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| 1:03.2 | Rodney's legacy. |
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| 1:24.5 | Books. |
| 1:34.2 | Welcome to the dig, a podcast from Jacobin Magazine. |
| 1:37.4 | My name is Daniel Denver, and I'm broadcasting from Providence, Rhode Island. |
| 1:43.0 | This episode is the second one I've done with historian Lily Geissmer. |
| 1:46.3 | I interviewed her first back in 2019 on her book Don't Blame Us, suburban liberals, and |
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