Welcome to this episode of the award-winning Best of the Left podcast.

Democratic Socialist, cue thunder and evil laughter.

Zoran Mondani's recent win in the Democratic primary in the race former of New York City

has thrust socialism back into the spotlight.

Perhaps we can have a calm, rational, thoughtful debate about it this time, though it would be the first.

For those looking for a quick overview, the sources providing our top takes in about 45 minutes today,

includes uneffing the Republic, Democracy Now, Confronting Capitalism, Second Thought, This is Revolution, and Andrewism.

Then in the additional deeper dives half of the show, there will be more in five sections.

Section A, historical context, followed by Section B, Failure to Launch, Section C, Capitalism Sucks, Section D Mamdani, and section E, vision of the future.

But first, a reminder to check out our new show solved on the Best of Left YouTube channel.

We are really proud of the show we're making and think you'll get real value out of it.

Our newest episode, currently out for members, took a long, hard look at the abyss

that is a society that doesn't care for one another and how that results in a bunch of

temporary Band-Aid solutions that, over time, simply become the system we have. Think

charity food banks instead of eliminating poverty, or GoFundMe instead of universal

health care, you know, the types of problems that democratic socialism would more or less

solve. We really think you'll like it, and you checking out that show will help us find

new viewers on the YouTube platform. So thanks in advance for all of your views,

likes, subscribes, and comments. That's all on the Best of Left YouTube channel. Links are on the show

notes. And now, onto the show.

For the better part of last year, we've been very deep in the economic weeds because there's

something wrong with this economy.

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