This is the Unregistered Podcast, and I'm Thaddeus Russell.

This is a show about ideas, people, and behaviors that are considered inappropriate, out of bounds, or beyond the pale.

The things you're not supposed to talk about if you're a school teacher, a college professor, a businessman, a

politician, a parent, a neighbor, or even a podcast host. These are the things you're not

supposed to say or even think if you're a good liberal, a good conservative, or a good citizen.

Each week, I'll interview a person who has something bad to say. They might be a journalist or a good citizen. Each week, I'll interview a person who has something bad to say.

They might be a journalist or a professor.

They might be a porn star or a drug dealer.

They might just be an ordinary person with an ordinary job

who doesn't care about the rules of polite society.

I'm not interested in breaking the rules just to be a troublemaker. I'm interested in people who break the rules of polite society. I'm not interested in breaking the rules just to be a troublemaker.

I'm interested in people who break the rules of conventional thought

and to expand the scope of what is possible to say in our society.

I'm interested in people who make me think.

I was born a socialist. I was born into a socialist family. My parents were revolutionary socialists until I was about the age of 11. And I became a socialist. I became a member

of the Democratic Socialist of America. And then it became a socialist Marxist historian.

And then in my 30s, I became an anti-socialist,

and I have been ever since.

But maybe my change of mind was wrong.

And so I decided to talk to a socialist who I have respected for my

entire political life and who remains as committed to the cause of socialism as ever.

This is my interview with Doug Henwood. I am here with Doug Henwood, who's joining us from

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