The Dig: Doug Henwood on DSA

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🗓️ 25 May 2019

⏱️ 61 minutes

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Summary

DSA's explosive growth continues; it has already, in a few short years, become the center of a renewed American socialist movement. Dan interviews Doug Henwood, who recently published a lengthy article in The New Republic entitled "The Socialist Network: Inside DSA's struggle to move into the political mainstream."

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0:00.0	This episode of The Dig is brought to you by our supporters at patreon.com and by University of California press which has loads of great titles perfect for dig listeners like you.
0:14.3	One that you might like is Mean Girl, Anne Rand in the culture of greed by Lisa Dugan.
0:22.3	Anne Rand's complicated notoriety as popular writer, leader of a political and philosophical cult,
0:29.3	reviled intellectual, and ostentatious public figure endured beyond her death in 1982.
0:37.8	In the 21st century she has been resurrected as a serious reference point for mainstream figures, especially those on the political right, from Paul Ryan to Donald Trump.
0:49.0	Mean Girl follows Rand's trail through the 20th century from the Russian Revolution to the Cold War
0:55.8	and traces her posthumous appeal and the influence of her novels via her cruel, surly, sexy heroes.
1:05.0	Outlining the impact of Rance philosophy of selfishness,
1:09.0	Mean Girl ill illuminates the Randian shape of our neoliberal contemporary culture of greed and the dilemmas
1:16.2	we face in our political present.
1:19.8	Mean Girl, Ann Rand and the Greed, by Lisa Dugan, out now from University of California
1:27.2	Press. Welcome to the Dig, a podcast from Jacobin magazine. My name is Daniel Denver and I'm broadcasting from Providence, Rhode Island.
1:47.0	I don't have time for a super-involved intro today, so I'll just say this.
1:53.0	DSA's explosive growth continues.
1:56.0	It's already, in a few short years,
2:00.0	become the center of a renewed American socialist movement. My guest today, Doug Henwood, has lots of
2:07.3	thoughts on what's happening with DSA and why, because he recently published a lengthy article in the New Republic entitled
2:15.4	The Socialist Network. Inside DSA's Struggle to move into the political mainstream.
2:23.0	Before we get rolling, this is a straightforward request for your support at patreon.com slash the dig.
2:32.0	If you listen to this show regularly and can afford to contribute a few bucks a month
2:37.9	Please do so it's the support of listeners precisely like you that allows us to provide all of our episodes for free to those who can't afford to support us.
2:50.0	And if you donate $10 or more, we will send you left-wing book swag in the mail.
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