Socialism in the US Can Happen, and Here's What It Can Look Like
The Socialist Program with Brian Becker
The Socialist Program
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🗓️ 18 October 2022
⏱️ 36 minutes
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Summary
What would socialism look like in the United States—the richest country ever known yet 38 million people are hungry? Socialism would use that wealth and our development for the needs of the people, stop endless wars, and crush racism, sexism, and all forms of bigotry. A new book, "Socialist Reconstruction: A Better Future for the United States," demonstrates what this could look like in detail, starting in “the first decade of socialism in the United States."
Brian is joined by Dr. Jodi Dean, Professor of Political Science at Hobart and William Smith Colleges & author of several books. She and Brian were part of the collective effort to produce the just-released book “Socialist Reconstruction: A Better Future for the United States."
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| 0:00.0 | Today we'll be talking about socialist reconstruction, a better future for the United States. |
| 0:08.6 | This is premised on a new book by the same title. |
| 0:12.3 | We need a new system. We need a new society. |
| 0:16.3 | We need to demand that which may have sounded impossible even a few weeks ago, |
| 0:20.6 | but is not only |
| 0:21.9 | realizable but an imperative necessity. Welcome to the Socialist Program. I'm your host, Brian Becker. If you enjoy or rely on this show or both, please show your support by |
| 0:55.5 | subscribing to our show at patreon.com forward slash the socialist program. Today we're talking with |
| 1:03.3 | Dr. Jody Dean. Jody is a professor of political science at Hobart and William Smith Colleges. |
| 1:09.9 | She's the author of several books. |
| 1:11.6 | She was part of the collective effort, along with myself and others, to produce the |
| 1:16.6 | just-release book, Socialist Reconstruction, A Better Future for the United States, which you can find |
| 1:23.6 | at liberation store.org. I want to encourage people also to get some of Jody Dean's other |
| 1:30.5 | works, including a recently released book, Organize, Fight, Win, Black Communist Women's Political |
| 1:38.8 | Writings by Dr. Dean and Cherise Burden Stelly, who were the editors. Jody is also the author of the important |
| 1:47.0 | book called Comrade, A Political Essay. In 2016, she authored and published the book, Crowds and Party. |
| 1:55.2 | Jody Dean, welcome back. So glad to be here. Thanks, Brian. |
| 1:58.6 | Thank you. Jody, you and I work together along with this other collective of people to write this book. |
| 2:05.4 | It was, in a way, a novel undertaking. |
| 2:08.4 | We were trying to imagine what socialism would be like in the United States. |
| 2:14.2 | The premise was the revolution has happened. |
| 2:17.3 | The government is now a socialist |
| 2:18.9 | government. The commanding heights of the economy are under the control of a socialist government. |
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