Welcome to another episode of the vast majority. I'm Jack been deputy editor

Micah Eutrich joined by staff writer Megan Day. What's up Megan?

Hey Micah, how you doing? I'm good, as good as possible.

At least, I'm good, probably better than you in that I don't have to deal with any like wildfires or extreme heat waves right now.

Yeah, there was a heat wave, it hit 112, I believe, in Los Angeles, followed by wildfire season, which has come upon us.

Yeah, it's pretty crazy here.

This is come up in for all the pictures that you send me like look at my backyard look at the

beautiful Southern California life I'm living aren't you jealous? I'm like ha who's

jealous now egg on my face. So today you and I are talking about anti-communism and anti-anti-communism

where we have a great discussion with Kristen Godsy and Scott Cihon and you and I both are familiar with

Kristen's work you interviewed her for Jacobin about her book why women have

better sex under socialism that came out a couple years ago. I read that book and it's a

fantastic book. Kristen is somebody who just makes a really sort of simple but important argument about the nature of, I mean this is her whole

academic career is talking about what life under capital C communist countries actually looked

like and it turns out that the answer is

cannot be summarized in sort of like communism good or communism bad and she kind of

seeks to excavate some of the you know there's no danger in any

of us losing the the horrors of Stalinism or anything like that that is pretty well

established especially in the United States but there is a danger of us losing sight of the actual accomplishments of those regimes and she talks about them in that book in the context of gender and gender equality and women's basic happiness and part of her argument

is just that yeah actually life under those regimes was in some ways better for women than life in hyper-capitalist, hyper-neoliberal countries,

both in Europe and the United States, is now.

Yeah, absolutely. The basic argument of that book, which I loved by the way, and I recommend that you pick it up if you get a chance, is that, yeah, like men can behave in extremely sexist and repressive ways.

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