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The Vast Majority: Coalition or Confrontation for Socialists

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🗓️ 28 August 2020

⏱️ 54 minutes

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Summary

We talked to Jared Abbott about his article in the new print issue of Jacobin, the title of which is a pretty accurate summary of it: "The Two Paths of Democratic Socialism: Coalition and Confrontation."
Read Jared's coauthored Catalyst article here: https://catalyst-journal.com/vol3/no2/a-socialist-party-in-our-time


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0:00.0

Welcome to another episode of the vast majority. I am Jack Vins Micah Utrich joined by Megan Day. Hello Megan.

0:08.4

Hello Micah, how are you? I'm fine. I seem to be in at least in physically better shape than you the listeners can't see it but you've got a giant bandage on your finger

0:19.8

Yeah, I had a big old kitchen accident last night, but you know what?

0:24.4

I'm, despite the fact that I'm injured and I have a turnicit wrapped around my appendage,

0:28.7

I showed up and did this because I'm a troop.

0:31.8

You are a true troop in the in the class war for the

0:36.1

the socialist partisans. Did you have any experiences when you cut I mean I know this makes for like a good socialist podcast

0:49.7

anecdote but when I was hit by a car on my bike last year,

0:55.0

my honest to God reaction, I got hit by the car,

0:59.0

and I landed on the ground, and I was in a lot of pain,

1:02.0

and as soon as the guy who hit me on his car helped me to my feet the first thing I thought of was oh

1:08.8

shit like I just got hit by cars probably on the ambulance but I have no idea how

1:13.6

expensive the ambulance is going to be I don't know how much all my medical care is going to cost and that

1:18.0

honestly like factored into my decision not to seek medical, immediate, a medical attention for my accident.

1:28.0

Did you have that same feeling?

1:30.0

Yeah, I mean the first thing that happened was that I, the record this is not like a like a scratch this is a very deep cut it required stitches and it was very alarming when it happened and you know we had this conversation where I'm feeling lightheaded.

1:43.7

I'm like losing a lot of blood actually and I'm just like,

1:47.2

gotta find a place that's in network.

1:48.6

Here's my insurance card.

1:49.5

First thing that happened was I like hobbled into the other room,

1:51.9

bleeding and pulled out my insurance card and we got to work

1:55.6

making sure that we weren't gonna you know end up somewhere that was going to be a problem and then I also had this

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