Podcast Episodes
Back to Search2023 DSA Convention Consensus Resolutions Pt. 1
Season 1 Episode 18
Today’s episode will be the first of a 2 episode series on the National Convention, one of the primary democratic mechanisms within the structure of …
3 years ago
Chicago Teachers Union and Brandon Johnson, with In These Times’ Miles Kampf-Lassin
Season 1 Episode 17
Something big has been happening in Chicago. If you have not heard, Chicago recently elected the most progressive mayor in the country. Brandon Johns…
3 years, 1 month ago
What is Socialism? Pt. 3 Sam Gindin's Socialism for Realists
Season 1 Episode 16
What would a socialist economy look like? Sam Gindin stresses the importance of establishing the feasibility of an alternative socialist society for …
3 years, 1 month ago
What is Socialism? Pt. 2 Ben Tarnoff's Building Socialism from Below: Popular Power and the State
Season 1 Episode 15
Responding to the swelling socialist movement, Tarnoff builds on the work of Nicos Poulantzas and “Eurocommunism” to illustrate how growing a sociali…
3 years, 2 months ago
What is Socialism? Pt.1 Meagan Day's Democratic Socialism, Explained by a Democratic Socialist
Season 1 Episode 14
Meagan Day, a DSA member and staff writer for Jacobin, wrote an essay in Vox to explain the goals of democratic socialism and respond to common misco…
3 years, 2 months ago
Confronting the Threat of the Far Right
Season 1
Trump lost the 2020 presidential election, but the forces he represented and the ideas he furthered – the contemporary US right – have not gone away.…
3 years, 3 months ago
Path to an Accountable Party
Season 1
This is another bonus episode. This is the recording of a debate called “Path to an Accountable Party”, held on January 27, 2023. The debate covers R…
3 years, 3 months ago
Non-Reformist Reforms
Season 1 Episode 13
Socialism 2022 Conference, Chicago
Recording was taken from the “How Do We Get a New Constitution” session, of which “part 1” was released in the prev…
3 years, 3 months ago
How Do We Get a New Constitution? with Aziz Rana
Season 1 Episode 12
Socialism 2022 Conference, Chicago
“How Do We Get a New Constitution”
Panelists: Aziz Rana
The Left’s path to power is blocked by one of the oldest and …
3 years, 4 months ago
Emergency Workplace Organizing Committee: Reviving the American Labor Movement, Pt 2
Season 1 Episode 11
This episode features a panel discussion from the Socialism 2022 Conference in Chicago, moderated by Daphna Thier and discussing the Emergency Workpl…
3 years, 4 months ago