Jacobin Show: Confronting Capitalism w/ Vivek Chibber
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🗓️ 1 September 2022
⏱️ 89 minutes
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Summary
Vivek Chibber, author of Confronting Capitalism, joins Jen Pan to explain what we can learn from both the Bolshevik and social democratic past to more effectively challenge and overcome capitalism in the 21st century. David Griscom of Left Reckoning is also with us to discuss whether or not socialists can also be patriots, or if that's playing with fire. Thomas Gokey of the Debt Collective helps us understand what Biden's decision to cancel $10k of student debt means. Finally, Paul Prescod explains why there's a shortage of teachers going back to school.
The Jacobin Show is a weekly YouTube show offering 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. Music by Zonkey. This is the podcast version of the episode from August 31, 2022.
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| 0:00.0 | Music |
| 0:29.0 | Hey, everyone. Welcome back to the Jacobin show. I'm your host, Jen Pan, as always. And today, |
| 0:35.9 | here to help me open the show is the same guy we had on last week, none other than Paul Prescott. |
| 0:43.0 | Paul, how are you? Good. I'm a little glad to be back two weeks in a row. So we obviously love |
| 0:49.6 | having you. This week, labor, Paul, we wanted to have you on because kids are obviously going back |
| 0:57.2 | to school. And I think the big item in the news right now is that many school districts are |
| 1:02.6 | experiencing a teacher shortage. Now, I think that probably most of our audience knows that you, |
| 1:08.7 | yourself, used to be a public school teacher. You're not anymore. So in a way, you are contributing |
| 1:14.0 | to the teacher shortage. But of course, we wanted to have you on to talk about what's been going |
| 1:19.3 | on. Now, just as a little bit of background on the teacher shortage, you know, I think people |
| 1:24.8 | have probably heard the news. This is happening kind of all across the country. I'll just say here in |
| 1:29.8 | New Mexico, there have been so many teacher vacancies that earlier this year, the state approved |
| 1:35.5 | emergency pay raises for teachers. And I think the bit of news that people probably saw was that |
| 1:40.6 | the governor was asking national guard members to fill in as substitute teachers. So, you know, |
| 1:46.4 | there's a lot going on. I also do want to mention, though, that I don't think that the teacher |
| 1:51.4 | shortages are uniform across the country. I think that's something that's interesting. But also |
| 1:56.6 | not surprising is that these school districts that were kind of struggling before the pandemic |
| 2:01.2 | with vacancies and with funding are the ones that have been hit the hardest. And I think that, |
| 2:05.5 | you know, more affluent kind of well off districts haven't been experiencing, you know, |
| 2:11.0 | at the teacher shortage on the same level. So as somebody contributing directly to the teacher |
| 2:17.7 | shortage, Paul, what got us to this point? Yeah. Well, really, I just want to say I am single |
| 2:23.1 | handedly responsible for this crisis. So I would like to apologize to the public education system. |
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