The Missing Revolution w/ Vincent Bevins
The Dig
Daniel Denvir
4.8 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 16 October 2023
⏱️ 87 minutes
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| 0:51.8 | at haymarketbooks.org Welcome to The Dig, a podcast from Jacobin magazine. My name is Daniel |
| 1:07.9 | Denver and I'm broadcasting from Providence, Rhode Island. I'm back with part two of my interview |
| 1:14.5 | with Vincent Bevins on his absolutely must-read new book, If We Burn, The Mass Protest Decade |
| 1:21.8 | and the Missing Revolution. What Bevins is trying to do is to solve perhaps the most important |
| 1:27.7 | puzzle posed by recent history. How did a decade of global mass protest so often lead |
| 1:34.1 | not to revolutionary change, but instead to terrifying reconsolidations of extreme reaction? |
| 1:42.0 | Bevins answer is that mass protest movement's created revolutionary situations, but without |
| 1:49.6 | the disciplined Leninist organizations that are necessary to take advantage of such situations |
| 1:55.4 | by seizing power and then governing. Please listen to part one of this interview if you haven't |
| 2:00.8 | done so already. Again, this interview will make a lot more sense if you listen to part one first. |
| 2:08.0 | Also, everyone's minds are obviously on Palestine right now, and we're working hard to get you |
| 2:12.7 | a few episodes over the coming weeks. The Dig does not move fast in response to breaking news, |
| 2:18.3 | but do stay tuned for important interviews with Nureira Kat, Ariel Angel, and Tarek Bakone, |
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