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Krystal Kyle & Friends

Episode 61: Michael Levitin

Krystal Kyle & Friends

Krystal

News, Politics

4.51.6K Ratings

🗓️ 19 February 2022

⏱️ 108 minutes

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Summary

Michael Levitin, author of Generation Occupy, talks to us about Occupy Wall Street’s ten-year legacy and the future of left populist movements.

Transcript

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0:00.0

Welcome everybody to Crystal and Kyle After Dark.

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Is that our new name?

0:13.0

Yes.

0:14.0

We have to change names before we get this time.

0:17.0

Just kidding.

0:18.0

You wish.

0:19.0

Anyway, welcome to Crystal and Kyle and friends.

0:20.0

Got a lot of stuff to talk about today.

0:22.0

We have a great interview coming up with a writer of a book on Occupy Wall Street.

0:26.0

And so we're going to get into the upsides of it, the downsides of it and everything

0:29.0

in between what the legacy of it, you know, where it pushed us in terms of history,

0:34.0

the direction it took us, what grew out of it, so on and so forth.

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So that should be interesting.

0:38.0

Yes.

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Indeed.

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The book is fascinating.

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I, for me, it was very thought provoking to think about the way that movement shaped the

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past decade, the sort of promises of that movement and how and why they fell short.

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The framing of it, the 99 versus the one, which I think is a lot better than the framing

0:56.0

that the left has today.

0:57.0

So I'm excited to talk to him about all those things.

0:59.0

Yeah.

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