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The Vast Majority: Socialism 102 with Leo Panitch

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🗓️ 30 May 2020

⏱️ 57 minutes

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Summary

We talked with longtime socialist thinker Leo Panitch about key socialist concepts beyond the basics. The conversation is based on Leo's book The Socialist Challenge Today: Syriza, Corbyn, Sanders (coauthored with Sam Gindin and Stephen Maher).
And you can watch Leo's lecture on Ralph Miliband here: https://www.youtube.com/<wbr />watch?v=oBJR3xfmgA4

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0:00.0

Welcome to the vast majority. I'm Jacobin Deputy Editor Micah Eutricht.

0:07.0

We're all still wrestling with where the left should go after the end of the second

0:12.3

Bernie Sanders campaign and as

0:15.0

devastated and forlorn as many of us still are at the end of that campaign the

0:19.7

reborn American socialist movement that came out of Bernie's two runs is not something

0:25.0

that we should take for granted.

0:27.5

And for those of us who understand that, that we can't just throw in the towel now, there are a few better thinkers to wrestle with than Leo Panich.

0:35.8

Leo is a professor emeritus of politics at York University in Toronto Canada.

0:41.8

He's the co-editor of The Socialist Register and the author of many books, including most recently, The Socialist Challenge Today, which he wrote with Sam Ginden and Stephen Marr, and searching for socialism, the project of the

0:56.1

labor left from Ben to Corbin with Colin Lays.

1:01.2

He also recently recorded a video for our stay-at-home YouTube series on the thought of Ralph

1:06.3

Milloband. Leo was Ralph's student at the London School of Economics and there is arguably no single thinker who has had a more

1:14.5

substantial impact on us at Jacobin than Ralph Millivan.

1:18.5

So do check out Leo's video talking about him.

1:22.1

I'll link to the video in the show notes. As I just said

1:25.8

we have a YouTube series called Stay at Home, which some of you are probably

1:30.7

familiar with, but those who aren't it is a YouTube

1:34.2

political education series that we started at the beginning of coronavirus

1:37.9

pandemic and we are now almost 50 episodes in to a whole range of topics. We have somebody talk for about half an hour, give a lecture on a given topic, and then we open it up to discussion and questions that come from our YouTube audience.

1:55.9

So if you haven't checked it out already, please go to YouTube and find the Jackman page.

2:01.1

Subscribe to our channel and like the videos and check out the stay-at-home

2:06.1

lectures we've already recorded and stay tuned for the ones that we are doing in

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