Brian Becker Seminar #11: The Global Class Struggle & Building Socialism, The National Question & Revolution in the U.S. (Preview)
The Socialist Program with Brian Becker
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🗓️ 30 November 2021
⏱️ 15 minutes
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Summary
In this November 2021 patrons-only seminar, Brian and the crew discuss the big picture of global class struggle and its history, the movement for justice in the U.S. where the national question is central, and how a revolution is possible in the U.S., how socialism can be built in the U.S. and how it is being built in countries like China, as well as existential crises that only socialism can solve; climate change, war, and fascism. Brian also shares some of his personal experiences as a young activist during the tumultuous period of the late 1960's. Check out the preview now and subscribe at patreon.com/thesocialistprogram to hear the rest!
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to The Socialist Program. This is the audio of our monthly seminar. |
| 0:04.8 | Subscribe and support this programming at patreon.com slash the Socialist Program to join live once a month and ask Brian Becker your questions and listen to them as soon as they come out. |
| 0:15.8 | Thanks so much for your help in keeping this independent show going. We can make this program with |
| 0:20.9 | you but not without you. I think we should go ahead and get started. And in addition to members |
| 0:28.4 | of the Patreon community, we're also, as Brian mentioned, very happy to be joined tonight by graduate |
| 0:33.4 | students of Professor Gabriel Rockhill, who all attend Villanova University. They're studying |
| 0:38.4 | political philosophy, which is something that we, of course, talk a lot about on the show, |
| 0:43.2 | and we've gotten several insightful questions from them ahead of time that we're looking |
| 0:46.4 | forward to answering. So I just want to thank everybody who's here, everybody who is joining |
| 0:52.7 | us tonight, and everyone in general who supports the show. |
| 0:55.9 | We have a lot of patrons. We're very, very honored to have so many patrons and have such a |
| 1:01.7 | vibrant community. And we really couldn't do this without y'all. So we really appreciate |
| 1:05.8 | you all contributing and joining tonight to continue making this a vibrant community. |
| 1:12.1 | So with that, Brian, do you want to get started with some of these questions from the students? Sure. |
| 1:16.2 | All right. Question one, how would you map the trajectory of revolutions and anti-colonial |
| 1:21.8 | movements in the United States when talking to people in the street? In other words, |
| 1:26.2 | what are the key moments and developments that |
| 1:28.1 | allow us to understand the history of the struggle for national self-determination and socialism |
| 1:32.8 | within the United States? What is the quote-unquote national question in the precise sense |
| 1:38.4 | that Lenin understands it mean to the socialist movement in the United States today and which |
| 1:43.4 | nations would have the right |
| 1:44.8 | to self-determination and why? |
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