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E249 - Raising Debs w/ Reid Kane
🕑 Added 2024-05-22 10:00:03 +0000 UTCSean and Andy are joined by Reid Kane to discuss the tortured legacy of the Socialist Party of America. Why doesn't the United States have a nominally working class party like the UK, where unions formed the institutional base for an independent party? How come state repression was so effective in undermining working class self-organization in the early-20th century? In which ways did the Old Left and the New Left fail to learn the lessons of the SPUSA and why are we still stuck with the Stalin-era Popular Front? Reid gives a powerful account of American socialism past and how we might vindicate the struggles of past generations.
Works by Reid:
YouTube series on American socialism
Writings in Sublation Magazine
Song: R.A.P. Ferreira - Boot Knife
Comments
wonderfell
god bless Reid Kane
waterbird
spirituality based on science ew no thanks. i agree w ben morea we need to start worshipping nature. all of our ancestors were animists it’s still buried in our collective memory
ian wallace
I would make the case that what we need is exactly a vulgar marxism, accessible and useful for people that dont want to study the minutiae of 19th century in europe. Yes, give me that.
Michael Wadman
Eugene V. Debs is the only reason I will admit I am a Hoosier. Having been in multiple unions: trades, industrial and service the issue I have always noticed is the fragmenting of labor keeps it weak. The wobblies had it right in the idea of "One Big Union". That is relevant today, no less easier to work towards but if capital is united against us let us be united against them. Great episode and great guest, thanks comrades.
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Our parties emerged before our working class
