Welcome to Confronting Capitalism.

I'm Melissa Nashek, and I'm here, as always, with Vivek Chibber, a professor of sociology at NYU

and the editor of Catalyst, a journal of theory and strategy.

Quick reminder before we get into our discussion, if you have any questions for Vivek or suggestions for future topics, you can send us an email at confronting.capitalism at jacobin.com.

And actually, that's a great segue to our episode today because today our episode is all about

answering listener questions. Yep. This is the first time we're trying this. And it's a note

of gratitude to the listeners,

the interest they're showing. But it's also a way of kind of mixing things up and addressing

issues in a rapid-fire way, which people would otherwise have to wait for weeks and maybe

months to be addressed. Yeah, and I just want to thank the listeners for sending in so many

great questions. The three of us were really happily surprised by the sheer volume of questions and responses that we got.

And also just the depth of listener engagement that the questions displayed.

You know, and it's great that we're not only reaching a broad audience, but reaching an

audience that's really deeply interested in what we're trying to do politically and...

Yeah, two things really stood out. One is how many of them are political questions, which is

really what we want. I don't want to do deep theory beyond a point in a show like this.

The other is they came from many parts of the world, which is really gratifying.

No, that was really cool. And, you know, we're going to answer as many questions as we can.

Some questions we actually are planning to do full episodes on. And then, you know, we just

aren't going to be able to get to all of the

listener questions, unfortunately, in this episode. Please continue sending us your questions,

your comments, your requests for topics because it's been really helpful for us to hear from you

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