Jacobin Show: Can the US Become a Social Democracy? w/ Bhaskar Sunkara

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🗓️ 4 June 2021

⏱️ 92 minutes

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Summary

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 June 2, 2021, with Jen Pan hosting and Nando Villa filling in as a guest host.

Jacobin editor Bhaskar Sunkara joins us to discuss the promise and the limitations of social democracy in the twenty-first century, particularly after the Bernie Sanders moment. What, exactly, is social democracy (and how does it differ from democratic socialism)? Where and how has social democracy worked around the world? And can it work in the Untied States?

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0:00.0	Hey everyone, welcome back to the Jacobin Show.
0:20.2	I'm Jen Pan.
0:21.6	You probably have noticed that my usual co-host Paul Prescott is not here with me today.
0:26.8	Instead, we have Nando Villa.
0:29.2	You obviously know him from the weekend's show.
0:31.3	Nando, what's up?
0:33.4	You know, big shoes to fill.
0:34.8	I'm just happy I got called up for the majors on the main show.
0:39.4	You know, the weekend show.
0:40.5	It's Saturday.
0:41.4	It's a little chiller.
0:42.4	This is this is the weekday.
0:43.8	It's time to work.
0:44.8	It's the weekday.
0:46.0	You've got your button up shirt on and you're ready to rock and roll.
0:50.4	Yes, I am as always.
0:52.2	As always.
0:53.6	So we, of course, have our good friend, the editor of Jacobin, Boss Garcin Cara,
0:59.2	coming on a little later to talk about social democracy, of course, what it is, what it is not,
1:04.3	how we achieve it.
1:06.3	But before he comes on, I wanted to just bring up, I guess, what we might say is lack of
1:13.6	social democracy, aka the complete posity of the welfare state of social supports in this country.
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