Weekends: How Socialists Can Win w/ Cornel West
Jacobin Radio
Jacobin
4.7 • 1.6K Ratings
🗓️ 2 August 2021
⏱️ 152 minutes
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Summary
Legendary socialist activist and professor Dr. Cornel West is talking to us about how the US left can still build power after the Bernie campaigns and the moral force of our movement for justice.
Every Saturday at 1 PM ET, Ana Kasparian and Nando Vila broadcast live from the Jacobin YouTube channel. Weekends features free-flowing and humorous commentary on current events and political strategy. This is the podcast version of the show from July 31, 2021.
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, hello, welcome to Weekends with Anna Casparian and Nando Villa. |
| 0:20.2 | It's good to be back, Nando. |
| 0:22.2 | Great to be back. |
| 0:23.2 | I'm feeling good. |
| 0:24.2 | I'm feeling fresh. |
| 0:25.2 | I'm feeling renewed. |
| 0:26.2 | I feel excited for today. |
| 0:28.9 | I'm feeling fresh, very fresh, feeling renewed, feeling excited for today's show. |
| 0:33.7 | We got for the Dr. Cornel West. |
| 0:37.1 | Yep. |
| 0:38.1 | I'm so excited. |
| 0:39.6 | I mean, so it's a pre-taped interview. |
| 0:42.4 | We're going to toss to it after we do our decode segment. |
| 0:44.8 | So if you see us looking different, dress differently. |
| 0:47.2 | It's a pre-taped interview, but I promise you you're going to love it. |
| 0:52.0 | I think we have some pretty good questions in regard to, you know, the left wing strategy, |
| 0:58.7 | how to keep fighting, even though we're experiencing some pretty dire times, things |
| 1:04.6 | look bleak. |
| 1:05.8 | But he always has this ability to kind of pump energy into you, you know, and get you |
| 1:11.4 | to like just see the bigger picture and think strategically about how to move forward, |
| 1:16.5 | which is difficult to do, really. |
| 1:18.4 | But he's good. |
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