Diving into the Wreckage 9.1: Where is the left now? w/ C. Derick Varn

The Antifada

Sean KB and AP Andy

Music, Arts

4.2 • 970 Ratings

🗓️ 6 September 2023

⏱️ 67 minutes

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Summary

Brand new Diving into the Wreckage mini-series scrapping at the wreckage that is the US Left, tracing the trajectory of socialist politics since the 1970s, and looking for ways out of the mess we're in.

Within, Varn presents on the recent history of the Democratic Socialists of America, their precipitous rise and slow decline in membership since 2020. How does this bode for the future of the millennial left? As it turns out, there are reasons to be cautiously optimistic!

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0:00.0	This is a special announcement for our listeners in New York and Philadelphia. For the first time since our legendary Goss Socialist Variety Hour,
0:15.0	the Antifada will be performing live
0:17.0	with Minion Death Cult and Paud Dam America.
0:21.0	First on Sunday, September 10th, we'll give you a night you'll almost never forget steps
0:26.6	from the Gowanus Canal at Littlefield in Brooklyn, USA.
0:32.1	Then on Super Tuesday, September 12th, we will be at the Franklin Ballroom in Philadelphia
0:37.6	PA with, Well, there's your problem!
0:40.5	And tickets are available now for both events, September 10th in Brooklyn, September 12th in Philly.
0:47.0	You can find those links in the show notes.
0:50.0	Will these historic shows usher in the first Congresses of a grand podcast international?
0:55.0	Or will we just be doing some goofy PowerPoints?
0:58.4	We haven't really talked about it yet.
1:00.5	But I hope to see you there. Welcome to diving into the wreckage here with Barn of Barn
1:19.3	blog. It's really redundant when I have to say my podcast and it's literally my last name like and
1:25.5	Sean of Antifada who is not so arrogant has to name his podcast after himself
1:30.1	no maybe in retrospect the jokey name the Antifada that we'd had at the time before Charlottesville and all that.
1:40.0	Maybe it wore a little thin after a while, but I'm not at the point, nor will I ever be at the point where it's going to be Sean cast or Sean blog or anything like that.
1:48.6	I'll leave that to the real experts like Derek.
1:50.9	Yeah, yeah.
1:52.1	You know why, as completely as a state of the left. The reason why I named it
1:57.1	Varn blog was that I could pivot what I talked about at any time in case I decided it all
2:01.2	went tits up and I want to talk about just history.
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