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Episode 308 Promo - United Colors of Oppression (w/ Claudia De La Cruz)

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News, Comedy, Politics

4.52.8K Ratings

🗓️ 25 September 2023

⏱️ 6 minutes

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Summary

Party for Socialism and Liberation 2024 presidential candidate Claudia De La Cruz joins Briahna to weigh in on why it’s important to have a socialist in the race, the third party debate, the failures of AOC & the squad, and what a movement to dismantle capitalism really looks like.

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Produced by Armand Aviram.
Theme by Nick Thorburn (@nickfromislands)

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0:00.0

look at our history and look at all the folks that we've had in our history,

0:04.2

W.V.The Boys, Whole Roops, then Claudia Jones, a whole bunch of people who were so

0:09.6

profcialists, they were communists, and they were fighting to transform society within

0:13.6

a political structure, within a political organization. And so when we talk about who is the PSL,

0:19.4

the PSL is not a four year, we're showing up and popping up in your community to get your vote

0:25.6

type of party. We do work day to day, folks are engaged against police brutality, folks are engaged

0:32.8

in organizing against the war, folks are engaged in organizing around issues of climate

0:39.6

and devastation and crisis, folks are international solidarity spaces. There is a broad spectrum

0:46.4

of work that we do on the day to day that we're trying to activate people to get involved in.

0:52.0

We understand that the electoral process in this country has never been democratic,

0:57.0

it has never been democratic, and we see it with voter repression and how it works,

1:02.0

and we see it even in this process of trying to build a campaign for a third party option,

1:07.7

the many obstacles that they are. I mean, if we were a truly democratic society,

1:12.4

the PSL, the Green Party, and any other party, I mean, we would have 10 different options,

1:17.5

but we don't have 10 different options. We have two, and we have two parts of the same body,

1:23.4

which ultimately represent the interests of the ruling class and our capitalists and our imperialists,

1:29.2

and we'll never give working class people the voice or the space. The democratic party,

1:35.3

people are always often like saying, are you concerned that you might be actually helping

1:40.8

Trump get elected? I don't know if people have been paying attention for the past three years,

1:45.1

or maybe the different years, which we had the democratic party, but Trump doesn't come out

1:49.9

of thin air. Trump comes as a product of the capitalist and imperialist system,

1:54.8

is a product of the policies of the democratic party as well, and we need to be clear about that.

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