#1239 Building the future of an international progressivism
Best of the Left - Leftist Perspectives on Progressive Politics, News, Culture, Economics and Democracy
Jay Tomlinson
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🗓️ 8 January 2019
⏱️ 80 minutes
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Summary
Air Date: 1/8/2019
Today we take a look at the burgeoning call for progressivism to look beyond national borders to create policies, solidarity and power that spans, unified, across the world.
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SHOW NOTES
Ch. 1: Progressive International
Progressives of the world unite; you have nothing to lose but your chains.
Adam Tooze, a professor at Columbia University, on a reinterpretation of the 2008 financial crisis, explaining this was not just a problem that started in the US but was a global problem: the first real crisis of the global age.
Michael Walzer argues that a foreign policy for the left has to begin with internationalism, and with the choice of comrades abroad. His new book is A Foreign Policy for the Left.
Doug Henwood explains the bitcoin craze, and then ex-finance minister of Greece Yanis Varoufakis ties up some loose ends on Adults in the Room and discusses the need for a progressive internationalism.
Right-wing authoritarians have been coordinating political campaigns and disrupting elections across national boundaries—a project masterminded by Steve Bannon. It’s time now for the left to reclaim its tradition of internationalism.
Ch. 6: Naomi Klein: How shocking events can spark positive change - @TEDTalks - Air Date 3-7-18
Naomi Klein shares a few propositions from "The Leap" -- a manifesto which envisions a world after we've already made the transition to a clean economy and a much fairer society.
VOICEMAILS
Ch. 7: Learning from 2009 and shifting our focus to the local level - V from Central New York
FINAL COMMENTS
Ch. 8: Final comments on thinking globally and acting locally
MUSIC:
- Opening Theme: Loving Acoustic Instrumental by John Douglas Orr
- Turning - Lathe (Blue Dot Sessions)
- Lakal - Speakeasy (Blue Dot Sessions)
- The Envelope - Aeronaut (Blue Dot Sessions)
- Glass Beads - The Balloonist (Blue Dot Sessions)
- Cradle Rock - Nursury (Blue Dot Sessions)
- Voicemail Music: Low Key Lost Feeling Electro by Alex Stinnent
- Closing Music: Upbeat Laid Back Indie Rock by Alex Stinnent
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| 0:26.9 | Now welcome to this episode of the award winning best of left podcast, in which we shall |
| 0:30.9 | learn not about the past as we just did in our retrospective episode, but we look to |
| 0:36.1 | the future we need to build and the burgeoning call for a progressivism that looks beyond |
| 0:41.0 | that national borders to create policies, solidarity, and power that spans the world. |
| 0:46.9 | Clips today come from progressive international, who what why, start making sense, jack up |
| 0:52.5 | and radio, and a TED Talk from Naomi Klein. |
| 0:56.9 | There is a global struggle taking place of enormous consequence. |
| 1:08.2 | Nothing less than the future of humanity is at stake. |
| 1:12.7 | All around us we see the status quo is failing. |
| 1:16.6 | The top 1% now controls half the world's wealth, while hundreds of millions of workers |
| 1:23.1 | remain trapped between poverty and precarity. |
| 1:26.9 | Where globalization promised prosperity, it's delivered financial crisis and endless war |
| 1:32.5 | instead. |
| 1:33.5 | All the while, our climate moves closer to destruction. |
| 1:38.6 | Out of this crisis, global authoritarianism is rising. |
| 1:42.8 | These leaders promised to restore national pride by attacking minorities, a free press, |
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