Jacobin Show: How Nonprofits Preserve Inequality w/ Ben Fong & Melissa Naschek
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🗓️ 11 June 2021
⏱️ 86 minutes
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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 9, 2021, with producer Cale Brooks filling in as co-host while Ariella and Paul are out.
Benjamin Fong and Melissa Naschek join us to discuss their latest Catalyst article on the boom of the nonprofit sector, the increasing dominance of college-educated professionals on the left, and how NGOs represent an understudied form of money in politics.
Read their article in Catalyst: https://catalyst-journal.com/2021/05/ngoism-the-politics-of-the-third-sector
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, and welcome back to the Jack of In Show. |
| 0:21.0 | You may have noticed I'm not here with Paul Prescott or Aurel |
| 0:24.6 | Thorne Hill tonight. Instead we've got young Kale, who's similarly confused about why the other two |
| 0:32.2 | co-hosts aren't here. Yeah, I was not expecting to be on screen right now. I was kind of hoping that |
| 0:37.9 | this would be Paul and I'm thoroughly disappointed that it's me again. I don't even know what we're doing, |
| 0:44.3 | but I'm going to try my best and I will promise you the best I can do tonight and I will learn |
| 0:52.0 | and do a growth. Take responsibility and accountability. I'm going to take some accountability tonight |
| 0:57.9 | for my for my really short my big shortcoming of not being Paul. Yeah, being Paul really. |
| 1:06.3 | By the way, I hope Paul and Aurela don't mind me mentioning this, but Paul is, as you all know, |
| 1:12.3 | a high school teacher and he's actually at his students graduation tonight. So that's why his |
| 1:17.8 | wonderful face isn't on. I don't know if we have said this before, but Aurela is we have Aurela |
| 1:24.0 | is starting her maternity leave. She's obviously about to have a baby. It hasn't happened yet, |
| 1:29.1 | but you know, we wish her the best and it is impending. So stay tuned for more updates. |
| 1:34.9 | I have requested that she open up a stream link in the hospital, but I was told that that's not |
| 1:41.7 | appropriate and we're not going to do that, folks. Yeah, we're not going to be streaming that |
| 1:46.3 | live birth unfortunately. So you'll just have to wait for future updates. But actually, Kale, |
| 1:52.5 | I am really glad that you're on tonight because one of the things that I wanted to talk about was |
| 1:58.2 | the New York mayoral race, which has sort of gone in a couple different interesting directions. |
| 2:04.3 | I'm no longer a resident of New York, but you are. And there's one candidate in particular that |
| 2:10.1 | I think we're going to kind of zero in on because it relates to a lot of the themes that we'll be |
| 2:14.9 | talking about with Ben Fong and Melissa Naschek, who are coming on a little later to talk about |
| 2:20.1 | NGOism and the rise of the nonprofit sector. And we'll get to her, we'll get to the candidate, |
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