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By Taking Power: Spring 2017 Issue Launch

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🗓️ 20 May 2017

⏱️ 34 minutes

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Jacobin's latest issue, "By Taking Power," asks: What has the Pink Tide accomplished? What is its future? When the Pink Tide emerged in Latin America, the U.S. Left was done with governing. The Pink Tide was a confident call back to the old-time religion, a return to not ceding state power to the Right, but wielding it to improve lives in the here and now.Jacobin editor and publisher Bhaskar Sunkara spoke with Rene Rojas, a PhD student in sociology at NYU, to discuss the ebb and flow of the Pink Tide at the Verso Books offices on May 16.

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Hi everyone and thank you for coming and this event is also co-sponsored by

0:15.2

Nackler who just relaunched. Look at their site you should pick up their

0:19.4

their issues. They really do this work very well.

0:22.8

I'm here, my friend Renee Rojas, our new issue,

0:26.4

which we're here to kind of celebrate the launch of,

0:28.6

centers on Latin America, and it centers particularly on the pink tide and we called it by taking

0:36.0

power partially because we thought that what happened in Latin America was kind of in the last

0:42.3

10-20 years or 10, 15 years was kind of a

0:46.8

counter to the idea that we changed things by

0:53.5

stepping questions of power.

0:55.5

And the Pink Tide experiments, of course,

1:00.5

have had a mixed record.

1:02.0

But on the whole, there's massive reductions in inequality and massive reductions in poverty,

1:07.0

increases in access of health and literacy.

1:10.0

I mean, these are real gains and in terms of the shifts that we've seen it's comparable

1:17.8

only to maybe the immediate construction of the welfare states in Europe in the post-war periods.

1:25.0

So I think there's a lot to kind of learn, and I hope the issue is kind of a tentative attempt

1:30.0

to get some lessons about why the pink tide, I shouldn't say, fell short,

1:36.8

but why it encountered certain kind of structural constraints

1:41.1

that it limited what it was able to accomplish.

1:43.7

So I think it's a good issue.

1:46.8

It's really beautifully designed.

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