Jacobin Show: Are You Watching Propaganda? w/ Eileen Jones
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4.7 • 1.6K Ratings
🗓️ 17 September 2021
⏱️ 98 minutes
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Summary
Jacobin film critic Eileen Jones joins TJS to discuss the uses (and the limits) of art as political propaganda and the role of mass entertainment in modern society.
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 September 14, 2021 with Paul Prescod and Jen Pan hosting.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey everyone, welcome back to the Jacobin Show. |
| 0:21.2 | Saw Young Kale for a minute, was not expecting to see him here, always happy when he joins |
| 0:25.7 | us. |
| 0:26.7 | It's me, Jen Pan and Paul Prescott, Paul, what's going on? |
| 0:31.3 | Not much. |
| 0:32.3 | I think we should maybe warn our listeners that we will not be talking about AOC's dress |
| 0:36.5 | today. |
| 0:37.5 | It's true. |
| 0:38.5 | We will be talking about representation of different sorts, but it's true. |
| 0:43.8 | The dress discourse we've decided to shunt aside for the time being. |
| 0:48.4 | We do have a great show though. |
| 0:49.8 | We're going to have Eileen Jones, who of course is Jacobin's film critic coming on a little |
| 0:54.0 | later. |
| 0:55.0 | This is basically the big movie episode. |
| 0:57.2 | That's right. |
| 0:58.2 | I'm not good with cultural politics usually. |
| 1:01.0 | I usually joke. |
| 1:02.2 | My politics boils down to high wage, good, low wage, bad, but yeah, I'm excited to talk about |
| 1:07.7 | a little bit. |
| 1:08.7 | But actually, Paul, what you're going to talk about does have something to do with that. |
| 1:12.0 | That is true. |
| 1:13.0 | You're not completely out of your wheelhouse here, but it is true. |
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