Jacobin Show: The Logic of Capital w/ Deepankar Basu

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🗓️ 12 August 2022

⏱️ 121 minutes

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Cale Brooks and Jen Pan discuss what is in the Inflation Reduction Act, the dregs of Biden’s Build Back Better plan that corporate Democrats felt they could sign onto, Matthew Cunningham-Cook outlines how the Biden admin has quietly expanded many of the policies from Trump’s Medicare privatization schemes, Rachel Cohen of Vox covers some positive developments in public housing at the state level, and Deepankar Basu tells us why we all need to learn a little more Marxist economics.

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 provided by Zonkey. This is the podcast version of the episode from August 10, 2022.

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0:00.0	Music
0:29.0	Hey everyone, welcome back to the Jack of In Show. I'm Jen Pan, here of course with
0:34.6	Kale Brooks. Kale, how are you? Doing well, feeling fine, feeling
0:40.2	taught, it's taught. I live in the desert. So I, how are you doing? I get to
0:46.6	complain about that. I'm also, I mean, it's also hot here. We've avoided, I think,
0:53.8	kind of the brunt of the heat wave that's been overtaking the rest of the
0:58.6	nation, but still hot. Yeah, another, another W on the board for, for the desert,
1:05.4	I guess. Yeah, yeah. Um, but, uh, Jen, what's going on today? What, what do we
1:09.8	have on the, on the docket? What do we have on the docket? Uh, we are talking to
1:14.4	quite a few people today. Uh, I will be speaking to two journalists,
1:18.2	number one, Matthew Cunningham Cook, who writes for the lever. I'll be talking
1:22.2	talking to him about the, uh, ongoing on the sly Medicare privatization that the Biden
1:29.5	administration has been pushing for some time. I will also be speaking to Fox reporter Rachel Cohen
1:35.2	on some, some, some, some good news, actually, some promising new experiments in social
1:40.4	housing in the US, excited for that conversation. Yeah, breaking on the Jack of In Show, we finally
1:45.5	have good news. Right. Yeah. We like to sprinkle that in, you know, from time to time.
1:49.7	There isn't always a lot, but we have some today. Um, and actually you are doing, uh,
1:55.4	kind of deep cut with, uh, Marxian economist, Deepon car, Basu, you'll be speaking to him about,
2:02.1	I really don't know what, but I'm sure, Marxist economics, we're going to just,
2:05.6	Marxist economics, of course. We're going to chill out, talk about Marxist economics,
2:09.3	talk about why it rules and why you should all learn it. Um, I mean, I think it'll be,
2:13.7	I think it'll be a good one. Um, but before all of that, uh, of course, the big news,
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