Brian Becker Seminar #4: Biden's Pivot to Asia, the Chauvin verdict, and more (Preview)
The Socialist Program with Brian Becker
The Socialist Program
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🗓️ 31 May 2021
⏱️ 11 minutes
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In this April 2021 patrons-only seminar, Brian and the crew analyzed the Biden administration's plans to withdraw from Afghanistan while increasing aggression toward China, the Chauvin verdict won by the historic uprising against racism, and more. 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. |
| 0:05.3 | Subscribe and support this programming at patreon.com slash the Socialist Program to join live once a |
| 0:11.6 | month and ask Brian Becker your questions and listen to them as soon as they come out. |
| 0:16.1 | Thanks so much for your help in keeping this independent show going. We can make this program |
| 0:20.6 | with you, but not without you. We can make this program with you, |
| 0:21.1 | but not without you. You know, the socialist program isn't only to bring news and analysis and |
| 0:28.9 | information, even though we try to do that with a very high degree of professionalism. We're |
| 0:34.6 | trying to build the movement. We're trying to build a socialist movement, a movement for social justice, a movement against racism, |
| 0:41.3 | against imperialism, against war. And the last year has really been a sort of singularly important event for those trying to build movements for social justice. |
| 0:53.3 | It's pretty much been a year unlike any other. |
| 0:56.6 | Certainly we have the catastrophe of COVID or the catastrophe of COVID mismanagement, |
| 1:03.0 | the mass unemployment because of the capitalist government's failure on that front. |
| 1:08.3 | But this remarkable mass movement that developed after the killing of George Floyd |
| 1:14.5 | on May 25th in Minneapolis, recent reports show that as many as 35 to 40 million people participated |
| 1:21.5 | in protests during that six, seven, eight week period. And I would say half of them maybe were participating in a protest for the first time. |
| 1:33.3 | And our whole view of socialism or socialist consciousness or political consciousness is that |
| 1:39.3 | consciousness grows when people are involved in struggle. If people are just at home going about their business, |
| 1:48.1 | trying to survive as most working class people are trying to do, or distracted by the things |
| 1:54.8 | that the ruling class would like to distract people with, even if they hear socialist ideas, socialist analysis, it won't necessarily |
| 2:03.6 | lead them to becoming socialists or to becoming radicals or to becoming revolutionaries or to becoming |
| 2:09.6 | activists. But once they themselves are in struggle, once people come into the struggle, once they're |
| 2:15.6 | dealing with the problems of the movement, once they're dealing with the problems of the movement, |
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