Welcome everyone to another regularly scheduled rerun, as you probably know.

More attention is being paid to the potential reorganization of the Democratic Party recently

after several progressives, most notably Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez,

won their primary elections against establishment Democrats. Most of these candidates and

lots of their supporters are explicitly critical of capitalism as we know it. So today,

I wanted to pull up an episode from last year that I think does a good job of making the case

for why the status quo economic system just can't be maintained and why so many people

are rising up against it, demanding something better. As for best of the left members,

they got a new bonus episode in their feed today in which Amanda and I discuss what I ended up

calling the road map to hope. And boy, how good is that sound right now? We talked about some of

the recent primary elections and the Democratic Party establishment, but also took the broad view

on why there is so much potential for hope right now, including the culture shift we're witnessing

and some structural changes that I can see on the horizon that may open up the doors for dramatic

change. So to hear that and for access to all of our past and future members episodes and support

the work that goes into this show, of course, sign up as a member at patreon.com slash best of

left or visit the contribute tab at bestopolev.com. And now enjoy. The notion that capitalism is here

forever, that it is the greatest system since sliced bread. This is a self-delusional idea

because of the fear of change, the fear of the unknown, the fear of wondering what comes next

if the system we've become used to were to fall apart.

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