This is Jacobin Radio, I'm Suzy Weisman. On today's program, we take a deeper look at the

American Rescue Plan just passed by the Senate, President Biden's stimulus package, that

many tout as a paradigm change.

Princeton historian and Jacobin contributing editor, Matt Carp, joins us for a deeper analysis

of the package. He says, an injection of much needed cash isn't the same thing as empowering

workers or creating a constituency for change, and we'll get him to explain. We then talk

to Emil Draitzer, whose new memoir in the jaws of the crocodile, a Soviet memoir, recounts

how he could become a journalist in the Soviet Union, and why the detour into satire was

not the only, but also the best path. We also talk about the new Oscar-non-nated Kancholowski

film, Dear Comrades, about an important strike in massacre in Novotsk, in Southern Russia

in 1962. Everything about that strike and the response from the authorities gives more

insight into the nature of the Soviet Union than tombs of political analyses, and Emil

Draitzer is an ideal interpreter. All this, when our program returns, in just a moment.

This is Jacobin Radio. I'm Suzy Weisman, and I'm very pleased to have Matt Carp back

with us. He's an associate professor of history at Princeton University and a contributing

editor to Jacobin magazine. His book, This Vast Southern Empire Slave Holders at the

helm of American foreign policy, was published by Harvard University, and it looks at the

ways that slavery shaped U.S. foreign relations before the Civil War. I just have to say it

because it won many prizes, and it was published, you know, about three years, four years ago

now, five years ago almost.

An extra number to that number. I can't remember what year we're in. This has been a

lost years for so many of us, but in any case, what we're going to be talking about

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