Special Episode: Racism, Fascism, & the New Book "The Bittersweet Science"
The Socialist Program with Brian Becker
The Socialist Program
4.7 • 587 Ratings
🗓️ 15 January 2021
⏱️ 72 minutes
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Summary
Dr. Gerald Horne offers his insights and historical perspective on the fascist-led mob that seized temporary control of the Capitol Building and dispersed Congress for hours in an effort to alter the 2020 election outcome. Professor Gerald Horne originally sat down for a conversation with Brian about his latest book "The Bittersweet Science -- Racism, Racketeering, the Political Economy of Boxing." This episode covers both topics and draws the connection between racism, fascism and capitalism.
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| 0:00.0 | racism and professional sports is our story we're going to focus today on boxing. |
| 0:10.4 | We need a new system. We need a new society. We need to demand that which may have sounded |
| 0:16.6 | impossible even a few weeks ago, but is not only realizable, but an imperative necessity. I'm Welcome to a special Friday episode of the Socialist program. |
| 0:51.2 | We're going to be talking with Dr. Gerald Horn. We had an interview with Dr. Horne on |
| 0:57.5 | December 16th about his new book, The Bitter Sweet Science, Racism, Racketeering, and the Political |
| 1:05.3 | Economy of Boxing. We talked to him about his latest book. Dr. Horn, of course, is one of the most prolific |
| 1:12.3 | authors and scholars in the United States, perhaps anywhere. He holds the Moore's Professorship of |
| 1:19.6 | History in African American Studies at the University of Houston, and again, the author of many, |
| 1:25.3 | many books, including the Counter-Revolution of 1776. As I mentioned, his author of many, many books, including the Counter Revolution of 1776. |
| 1:29.3 | As I mentioned, his most recent book is the bittersweet science, racism, racketeering, and the political economy of boxing. |
| 1:37.7 | Before we play that pre-recorded interview, though, we wanted to talk to Dr. Horn about the events of January 6th and the period right before it and right afterwards. |
| 1:51.3 | Dr. Gerald Horn, welcome. |
| 1:53.3 | Thank you for inviting me. |
| 1:54.8 | Thank you for joining. |
| 1:56.0 | Dr. Horn, we interviewed you a couple of weeks ago. |
| 1:59.3 | It seems like ancient history about your new book. |
| 2:02.8 | Of course, there are big parts of your book that are, you know, very, very relevant to even the recent political developments. |
| 2:10.1 | But we wanted to get your thoughts about what happened on January 6th. |
| 2:14.5 | Our show has covered this every day. |
| 2:21.3 | January 6th was a big event. It was unprecedented in one way. You had the president of the United States and his top advisors calling |
| 2:28.9 | on people from around the country to come to Washington. The state attorney generals of the |
| 2:33.9 | Republican ones at least did robocalls telling people come to Washington, the state attorney generals of the Republican ones, at least |
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