Welcome to another episode of The Vast Majority. I'm Jacobin Deputy Editor Micah Eutricht.

We have already brought up on this podcast.

Recently, the tragic death of Leo Panich, the York University political scientist and longtime

Marxist intellectual who was a guest on this podcast less than a year ago,

somebody who has been incredibly influential

to Jacobin as a publication, arguably

the person who is singularly most influential on Jacobin as a project and who has

played a really key role in supporting us almost since the very beginning of the

project and he's also somebody who meant a great deal

to many of us personally and so we're still grieving over the loss of Leo who

died at age 75, died of complications relating to COVID as he was getting

treatments for cancer in Toronto.

And we published quite a bit about Leo in the wake of his death. And we recently

published a long and very good and very thorough piece by Jackman contributing editor Chris Meizano that goes over Leo's entire political career and goes over what some of his major ideas were,

major books like his co-authored book with Sam Ginden,

the Making of Global Capitalism,

takes up what the themes and the basic arguments

of his life on the left were and there's really

no better place that I know of no better one-stop shop to get a broad overview of Leo's work than Chris's essay. I will link to that essay, the Marxism

of Leo Panich in the show notes of this episode. And so for this episode I'm talking to Chris about that essay.

Chris is a long-time contributing editor to Jacobin, Union Staffer in New York City,

a member of the Editorial Board of Catalysts, and a former member of the National

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