Dig: Bernie 2020 with Alex Press and Bhaskar Sunkara

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🗓️ 26 February 2020

⏱️ 100 minutes

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Live show with Jacobin's Bhaskar Sunkara and Alex Press in Cambridge, MA for Bernie 2020. Recorded the night of Nevada caucuses.

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0:00.0	This episode of The Dig is brought to you by our listeners who support us at patreon.com and by Verso Books which has loads of great left-wing titles perfect for dig listeners like you. One that you might like is first-class
0:17.2	passengers on a sinking ship, elite politics and the decline of great powers by Richard Lockman. The extent and
0:25.8	irreversibility of US decline is becoming ever more obvious as America
0:30.6	loses war after war and as one industry after another loses its technological edge.
0:37.0	In first-class passengers on a sinking ship,
0:40.0	Lockman explains why the United States will find it impossible to retain global dominance.
0:45.6	He contrasts America's relatively brief period of hegemony with the Netherlands, similarly short premises, and Britain's far longer
0:56.7	era of leadership.
0:59.2	Decline in those cases was not resources and governmental powers. In this process not only are ordinary people harmed, but
1:17.2	capitalists become increasingly unable to coordinate their interests as a class.
1:24.4	They fail to adopt policies and make the investments necessary to counter economic and
1:29.7	geopolitical competitors elsewhere in the world.
1:33.2	Following this model, Lockman traces the transformation of US politics from an era of
1:39.2	elite consensus to its present-day condition of paralysis and plunder, explaining the paradox of an
1:45.8	American military with an unprecedented technological edge unable to
1:50.5	subdue even the weakest enemies and the consequences of finances cannibalization of the economy.
1:58.4	First-class passengers on a sinking ship, elite politics, and the decline of great powers, by Richard Lockman.
2:07.2	Out now from Verso Books. Welcome to the Dig, a podcast from Jackbinn magazine. My name is Daniel Denver and I'm broadcasting from
2:26.0	Philly. On Saturday I hosted a live dig in Cambridge Mass for Bernie 2020 with Baskar Shankara and Alex Press in front of a crowd
2:36.4	that was full of really smart people who asked really great questions. I'm running
2:41.1	that Cambridge show today as a dig extra, what I used to call a
2:45.9	diglet once upon a time. Thank you to Harvard for Bernie for putting this show
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