This is Jacobin Radio and I'm Susie Weisman.

Today we talk about socialist politics, DSA,

the Democratic Party, and the Bernie Sanders candidacy

with two DSA activists.

And we then look at the priced out generation,

the name of the new book with Randy Shaw, its author.

We begin our conversation with the essayers Jeremy Gong and Magali Miranda Al-Kassar about the larger

issues that they are confronting after two years of Trump, a midterm

election that saw radical Democratic socialists elected to Congress, and the beginning of a second

Bernie Sanders campaign for president. We ask how they see the challenges

ahead in a more favorable national context for Democratic socialists thanks to

Bernie AOC, Red for Ed Striking Teachers Teachers and the Trump administration's retrograde policies.

Can the left take over the Democratic Party and should that be their aim?

Or should the social movement work of DSA independent of the Democrats be their focus?

And how do they define socialism and what should socialists do given the structures of our

and the second segment we talked to Randy Shaw author of Generation Pricedout, which is a call to action that addresses the

National Crisis of Housing

City by City looking at how policy and neglect as well as economic

crisis has led to skyrocketing rents and home values that have priced out the

working in middle class of urban America, such that young people today join the exodus from

the city or face homelessness because they cannot afford to live in our cities.

Randy Shaw's generation priced out not only tells the stories of those impacted by the national housing crisis in more than a dozen cities, he makes the argument that cities can and must address the housing needs of residents of all income levels.

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