#1485 The Politics We Have, The Politics We Need (Socializing the Oil Industry)
Best of the Left - Leftist Perspectives on Progressive Politics, News, Culture, Economics and Democracy
Jay Tomlinson
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🗓️ 23 April 2022
⏱️ 67 minutes
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Air Date 4/23/2022
Today we take a look at how we got to the form of toothless liberalism we are living with today and begin to reimagine what a more muscular state apparatus could do in the face of the climate crisis.
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SHOW NOTES
Emma hosts Luke Savage, staff writer at Jacobin Magazine, to discuss his new book The Dead Center: Reflections On Liberalism And Democracy After the End Of History.
Ch. 2: Nationalizing Oil It's About Saving the World - Thom Hartmann Program - Air Date 4-11-22
Squeals of “socialism!” aside, we know how to do this and have done it before, repeatedly - This time it’s not just about saving our banks or fighting a war. This time, it’s about saving the world.
Luke Savage on his collection of essays about the abandoned hopes of the Obama era, the rise of Trumpism and the inability—or unwillingness—of Liberalism to offer a moral and more just vision for the world.
Matt Bruenig, returning to the podcast, is the founder of the People's Policy Project think tank. Johanna Bozuwa, Executive Director at the Climate and Community Project, has written a detailed paper on how we can actually "nationalize this."
Ch. 6: Climate Incrementalism is the New Denial w/ Kate Aronoff - Bad Faith - Air Date 5-15-21
Tired of defeatist, nihilistic conversations about climate change? Same. That's why this week, we invited climate journalist and author of Overheated: How Capitalism Broke the Planet, Kate Aronoff.
MEMBERS-ONLY BONUS CLIP(S)
Emma hosts Luke Savage, staff writer at Jacobin Magazine, to discuss his new book The Dead Center: Reflections On Liberalism And Democracy After the End Of History.
VOICEMAILS
Ch. 9: Thoughts on doing psychology right - Nick from California
FINAL COMMENTS
Ch. 10: Final comments on talking about psychology done wrongly... wrongly
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to this episode of the award-winning Best of a Left Podcast in which we shall |
| 0:07.2 | take a look at how we got to the form of toothless liberalism we are living with today and |
| 0:13.2 | begin to reimagine what a more muscular state apparatus could do in the face of the climate |
| 0:18.3 | crisis. |
| 0:19.3 | Clips today are from the Majority Report, the Tom Hartman program, Cytations Needed, and |
| 0:24.8 | Bad Faith with an additional member's only clip from the Majority Report. |
| 0:35.4 | We can start there with the concept of the end of history and then move into the Obama |
| 0:39.6 | election. |
| 0:40.6 | For people who might not know, what is that concept and why did you make it one of the |
| 0:44.7 | central points of your book? |
| 0:46.3 | Sure. |
| 0:47.3 | Okay. |
| 0:48.3 | That book, the title is part of a title of a book by Francis Fukuyama and that book |
| 0:56.6 | famously came out in the 90s, famously positive liberalism, liberal democratic institutions |
| 1:03.4 | as the end point of human history. |
| 1:09.5 | To be very general about it, the suggestion was that we've arrived at this situation where |
| 1:15.7 | most societies either are or contend to be or are moving towards liberal democratic institutions, |
| 1:24.3 | a market economy, that sort of thing. |
| 1:30.3 | It's significant for a few reasons. |
| 1:34.7 | Every era in some way thinks it's special, every era has a sense of its own exceptionalism. |
| 1:40.8 | I think the era in which both you and I are born was exceptional in its exceptionalism |
| 1:46.7 | if I can put it that way. |
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