Jacobin Show: Against Elon Musk, For Scientific Socialism w/ Leigh Phillips
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🗓️ 9 July 2021
⏱️ 99 minutes
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Summary
Jacobin contributor and science writer Leigh Phillips joins us to discuss why socialists should embrace technological innovation and what science might look like if it were freed from the profit motive.
Every Wednesday at 6 PM ET, The Jacobin Show offers socialist perspectives on class and capitalism in the twenty-first century, the failures of liberalism, and the prospects of rebuilding a left labor movement in the US. This is the podcast version of the show from July 7, 2021 with Paul Prescod and Cale Brooks hosting.
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| 0:00.0 | Good evening. Welcome to another episode of the Jackman Show. I am Paul Prescott, |
| 0:23.3 | Jen as a night off, so we are actually joined by our great producer young |
| 0:27.7 | Kale. Kale, how are you going tonight? I'm doing well. I'm doing well. I'm |
| 0:31.4 | happy to co-host tonight. I feel like over the last few weeks, especially on |
| 0:39.2 | weekends, I've just been talking more and more about why socialists should be |
| 0:43.6 | scientific and so it was only right to finally do a Jackman Show episode on |
| 0:49.8 | scientific socialism. Right. So very happy to be joined in a little bit by Lee |
| 0:55.6 | Phillips, good friend of the show, and just like Mr. Jackman Science, he's our |
| 1:02.7 | premier scientific socialist, if I do say so. And Kale is actually doing a |
| 1:08.9 | virtue also performance tonight because he's also producing at the same time, |
| 1:13.4 | but also stick around because we have a worker from Chicago, Cook County, |
| 1:18.4 | SAU Local 73 has been on strike for a few weeks, so we're going to be |
| 1:22.5 | interviewing one of the strike leaders there, so you definitely don't want to |
| 1:25.1 | miss that. But I figured I would start, you know, speaking of science. |
| 1:29.8 | In case we all forgot, this past week has really reminded us that we've we're |
| 1:33.8 | an urgent climate crisis that is only getting worse. You have a brutal heat wave |
| 1:38.1 | in the northwest, a heat wave in the northeast. You see videos now of |
| 1:42.2 | infrastructure literally melting because of the heat, and you have the ocean |
| 1:46.0 | literally on fire. So we need all hands on deck to address the climate issue, |
| 1:50.8 | and we need to consider all options available. And so in this period, I kind of |
| 1:54.4 | want to highlight a recent article by Jacob and founding an editor of |
| 1:58.3 | Boscar some card that was in the Guardian recently, where he makes the case |
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