TMBS ReAir: 24 - The First Red Century & History On Fire ft. Bhaskar Sunkara & Daniele Bolelli

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Michael Brooks

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4.8 • 1.3K Ratings

🗓️ 16 November 2021

⏱️ 99 minutes

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TMBS episode 24 first aired on January 16th, 2018. Here is the episode recap: Michael explains the different ways US presidents have been disparaging and degrading Haiti long before Trump dreamed of running for office. Shoutout to NUMSA the largest metal workers union in South Africa, a radical union that is directly fighting against the neoliberal policies imposed by the South African government. Daniele Bolelli (@DBolelli) joins us to talk history, Taoism, and martial arts. The pyramid is back and we target one of the world’s largest financial institutions. Bhaskar Sunkara (@sunraysunray) is studio to talk about primitive accumulation, Bolshevism, and his journey to socialism. Michael explains the different ways US presidents have been disparaging and degrading Haiti long before Trump dreamed of running for office. Shoutout to NUMSA the largest metal workers union in South Africa, a radical union that is directly fighting against the neoliberal policies imposed by the South African government. Daniele Bolelli (@DBolelli) joins us to talk history, Taoism, and martial arts. The pyramid is back and we target one of the world’s largest financial institutions. Bhaskar Sunkara (@sunraysunray) is studio to talk about primitive accumulation, Bolshevism, and his journey to socialism. TMBS re-aired episodes come out every Tuesday at 7PM EST here on your podcast app & on The Michael Brooks Show Channel. This program has been put together by The Michael Brooks Legacy Project. To learn more and rewatch the postgame content visit https://www.patreon.com/TMBS

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0:00.0	We read one day.
0:28.7	We hold these truths to be self-evident that all men are created equal that they are endowed by their creator with certain inalienable rights that among these a life liberty into pursuit of happiness.
0:41.7	But if a man doesn't have a job or an income, he has neither life nor liberty and the possibility for the pursuit of happiness.
0:55.7	He merely exists, estimated that we spend $322,000 for each enemy we kill in Vietnam while we spend in the so-called warm poverty in America only about $53 for each person classified as poor.
1:23.7	The promises of the great society have been shut down on the battlefield of Vietnam, making the poor white and negro bad the heaviest burdens both at the front and at home.
1:39.7	The first thing I want you to understand is this, that it didn't cost the nation one penny to integrate lunch counts, it didn't cost the nation one penny to guarantee the right to vote.
1:56.7	Now we are dealing with issues that cannot be solved without the nation spending billions of dollars and undergoing a right to redistribution of economic power.
2:10.7	All labor has dignity, but you are doing another thing.
2:29.7	You are reminding not only Memphis, but you are reminding the nation that it is a crime for people to live in this rich nation and receive starvation weight.
2:59.7	Welcome to the Michael Brooks show we are broadcasting live from Brooklyn left his best headquarters with super producer Matt Leck.
3:20.7	Howdy.
3:22.7	And head to your edition Dave Grishcombe.
3:24.7	How's it going?
3:25.7	There you go.
3:26.7	Super producer David Slavik, he is in the discord, the Twitter sphere roaming the digital universe all part of this gorilla operation on today's program.
3:38.7	He is the host of the history on fire podcast also co-host of the Drunken Taoist podcast.
3:44.7	We will talk about one of my favorite topics in a major part of the show hidden histories history on fire elicit histories.
3:52.7	Why they matter and how Taoism and martial arts influenced his adventure.
3:59.7	Then Boshkar Sunkara, Michael Brooks show crew on the socialism of the moment.
4:04.7	What we have to learn from the Bolsheviks and the Swedish social democrats and a strategy for the left to win now.
4:13.7	All that plus the pyramid returns and we are throwing a global macro financial institution in it and a very special shout out.
4:26.7	Taking us to South Africa.
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