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🗓️ 16 February 2017

⏱️ 49 minutes

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The first episode of Jacobin Radio with Suzi Weissman, featuring a wide-ranging interview with Bhaskar Sunkara and Robert Brenner that covers prospects for resistance with a rising anti-Trump sentiment but a weakened labor movement, the Democrats' refusal to learn any lessons from November's election, and the widespread support for a social-democratic agenda that the Left can capitalize on.Bhaskar Sunkara is the founding editor of Jacobin. Robert Brenner is the director of the Center for Social Theory and Comparative History at UCLA, author of numerous books including The Economics of Global Turbulence, and coeditor with Vivek Chibber of Catalyst: A Journal of Theory and Strategy, forthcoming from Jacobin.

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0:00.0	I'm Micah Utrich, associate editor at Jacobin magazine.
0:04.0	We are very happy to bring you a new podcast from Susie Weisman.
0:07.6	Susie is a professor of politics at St Mary's College of California.
0:11.9	The author most recently of Victor Serge, a political
0:14.6	biography, and she's a long-time radio host. She'll be coming to you regularly
0:19.3	at Jackman Radio, so if you like what you hear, be sure to subscribe on iTunes or Stitcher.
0:24.0	You'll hear all of our shows there, including The Dig from Dan Denver, Stockton Tim
0:28.6	alone from R.L. Stevens and me, and other discussions with Jacob and contributors.
0:33.8	Also, if you feel so moved, do rate and review us
0:36.9	and tell your friends on social media about us.
0:39.6	Okay, here's Susie Weisman and I'm joined for our inaugural show by
0:56.0	Jacobin magazine founder and editor Baskar Sunkara and UCLA historian Robert Brenner.
1:02.8	Baskar is the founder and editor of Jacobin magazine, and it's probably the most
1:07.4	successful leftist journal in American history with its explicitly neo-Marxist orientation and activist bent.
1:14.2	The fall issue is called the party we need.
1:17.3	The websites visited by millions.
1:19.2	There's 20,000 subscriptions,
1:21.0	and I could possibly be corrected on that by now since it grows
1:24.8	every day. It's a gorgeous print journal that comes out quarterly and there are now
1:29.3	Jacobin reading groups all over the country. Since the election of Donald Trump,
1:34.5	the subscriptions to Jacobin have surged,
1:36.8	as has the membership of all kinds of left organizations,
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