Official US Policy: We Can ‘Win’ a Nuclear War
The Socialist Program with Brian Becker
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🗓️ 2 June 2022
⏱️ 55 minutes
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Summary
Three decades after the end of the so-called Cold War the threat of all-out nuclear conflict – and therefore the annihilation of life on Earth as we know it – is a real and growing danger. But this time, the threat to human civilization is compounded by the crisis of climate change. We need a new system if humanity is to step back from the brink.
Brian is joined by John Bellamy Foster, the editor of Monthly Review and a professor of sociology at the University of Oregon. He’s the author of several books, including Naked Imperialism: The U.S. Pursuit of Global Dominance, and The Return of Nature: Socialism and Ecology. Look at for his new book being published August 23 called “Capitalism in the Anthropocene: Ecological Ruin or Ecological Revolution.”
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| 0:00.0 | Three decades after the end of the so-called Cold War, and as the obvious danger of climate catastrophe |
| 0:08.8 | looms, the threat of nuclear war and thus annihilation re-emerges as a real and growing danger. |
| 0:18.8 | We need a new system. We need a new society. We need to demand that which may |
| 0:24.5 | have sounded impossible even a few weeks ago, but is not only real story on the Socialist Program. |
| 0:59.0 | I'm your host, Brian Becker. |
| 1:00.9 | Today we're talking with John Bellamy Foster. |
| 1:04.3 | He is the editor of Monthly Review. |
| 1:06.9 | He's a professor of sociology at the University of Oregon. |
| 1:10.0 | He's the author of several widely influential books, |
| 1:14.6 | including Marx's ecology, materialism in nature, |
| 1:18.6 | Ecology Against Capitalism, Naked Imperialism, |
| 1:22.6 | The U.S. pursuit of global dominance. |
| 1:25.6 | More recently, the return of nature, socialism, and |
| 1:30.3 | ecology. He has a new book coming out on August 23rd. It's called Capitalism in the Anthropocene, |
| 1:37.3 | Ecological Ruin, or Ecological Revolution. John Bellamy Foster, welcome to the Socialist Program. |
| 1:45.5 | Pleased to be here. Thank you for joining. You have a very important article. It's called |
| 1:51.8 | Notes on Exterminism for the 21st Century Ecology and Peace Movement. And it's talking about |
| 1:58.8 | what I said in the introduction. As a matter of fact, you might have |
| 2:02.0 | noticed some of those words were actually just lifted basically in a paraphrased way from your |
| 2:08.1 | article. Since 1991, since the collapse of the Soviet Union and the socialist camp, |
| 2:15.3 | the idea of nuclear war, the threat of nuclear war, something that you and I |
| 2:20.0 | probably were very well aware of since we were kids, since the Cuban Missile Crisis, and maybe before, |
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