Class
Class is the official podcast of the National Political Education Committee of the Democratic Socialists of America. We believe working people should run both the economy and society democratically to meet human needs, not to make profits for a few. Class is a podcast where we ask socialists about why they are socialists, what socialism looks like, and how we, as the working class, can become the ruling class.
Episodes
49 episodes
Spontaneity, Organization, and Lenin, Pt. 2
This is Class, the official podcast of the Democratic Socialists of America’s National Political Education Committee. This is part two of our conversation with Rodrigo Nunes about what Lenin can teach us about pontaneity, organization, strategi...
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Spontaneity, Organization, and Lenin, Pt. 1
This is Class, the official podcast of the Democratic Socialists of America’s National Political Education Committee. This is part one of our conversation with Rodrigo Nunes about what Lenin can teach us about pontaneity, organization, strategi...
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Organizing the Workplace With EWOC, Pt. 2
This is Class, the official podcast of the Democratic Socialists of America’s National Political Education Committee. My name is Luke Pickrell. This is part one of our conversation with Daphna Thier about the Emergency Workplace Organizing Comm...
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Organizing the Workplace With EWOC, Pt. 1
This is Class, the official podcast of the Democratic Socialists of America’s National Political Education Committee. My name is Luke Pickrell. This is part one of our conversation with Daphna Thier about the Emergency Workplace Organizing Comm...
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Examining Mexican Politics, Pt. 2
This is part two of our two-part interview with José Luis Granados Ceja and Kurt Hackbarth about politics in Mexico. José Luis and Kurt are journalists and activists based in Mexico and the co-hosts of
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Examining Mexican Politics, Pt. 1
In this episode, we talk with José Luis Granados Ceja and Kurt Hackbarth about politics in Mexico. The interview is divided into two parts, and part two will be released in two weeks. José Luis and Kurt are journalists and activists based in Me...
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Bonus Episode: Fragile Juggernaut: What Was the CIO?
We're happy to share a bonus episode with you: the first episode of Haymarket Book’s Originals project, Fragile Juggernaut. Haymarket Originals brings in-depth, series-length audio treatments of a wide range of historical and contem...
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Reconstruction and Its Afterlife, Pt. 2
This is part two of our two-part conversation with Manisha Sinha about Reconstruction. Part one is here. In part two, Manisha discusses the...
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Reconstruction and Its Afterlife, Pt. 1
In this episode, we talk with Dr. Manisha Sinha about Reconstruction and the interconnectedness of social movements between the beginning of the Civil War in 1860 and the passage of the 19th Amendment in 1920. The interview is split into ...
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Escaping the Constitutional Bind, Pt. 2
This is part two of our two-part interview with Aziz Rana. To share your thoughts on the episode, click on the “Send us a Text Message” link at the top of the episode description. Aziz Rana is a professor of law at Boston Col...
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Escaping the Constitutional Bind, Pt. 1
In this episode, we talk with Aziz Rana about the struggle for democracy and America’s Constitutional Bind. The interview is split into two parts. Part two will be released in two weeks. You can now click on the “Send us a Tex...
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36:34
The Ongoing Crisis of American Politics, Pt. 2
Send us a Text Message.This is the second part of our conversation with Sanjiv Gupta and Paul Heideman about U.S. politics, conflict within the Republican Pa...
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The Ongoing Crisis of American Politics, Pt. 1
In today’s episode, we talk with Sanjiv Gupta and Paul Heideman about U.S. politics, conflict within the Republican Party, and the current state of American democracy. We invited Saniv and Paul back onto the podcast as a follow-up to their 2022...
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Communist Manifesto "Bourgeois and Proletarians", a Summary of the
This episode is an attempt to make the first part of the Communist Manifesto, the part called
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Episode 30
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59:20
Marxism and Queer Liberation: Why Socialism Needs Queer Liberation and Queer Liberation Needs Socialism
Achieving the liberation of the queer community requires realizing the intersecting nature of all U.S. cultural oppressions — including class oppression — ties the liberation of all to the end of capitalism. Today, queer oppression is being use...
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Season 1
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1:44:17
'Democracy' in the United States (a debate)
In the Communist Manifesto, Marx and Engels wrote that “the first step in the revolution by the working class is to raise the proletariat to the position of ruling class, to win the battle of democracy.” Almost two centuries later, the battle f...
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Socialist Night School
Local DSA chapters have been conducting what is called Socialist Night School. Socialist Night School is a democratic space for people to participate in the education process. In today’s episode we talk with Guy Brown, Mo...
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Episode 29
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24:52
Chicago Teachers Union Calls for Ceasefire in Palestine and Israel
Today we are talking with members of the Chicago Teachers Union, Ayesha Qazi, David Stieber and Hadeil Abdelfattah. As you may remember from our episode on the victory Chicago’s mayor, a former CTU member, Chicago’s students and educators have ...
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Season 1
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Episode 28
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33:22
DSA and the Labor Giant are Ready to Fight!
DSA is becoming a true working class organization. Today we are continuing our conversation with three past and present members of DSA’s National Labor Commission, also known as the NLC. The National Labo...
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Season 1
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Episode 27
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17:43
The Labor Giant Awoke in 2023
This has been an important year for the labor movement and for DSA. Workers are seeing the value in forming a union and using the credible threat of a strike to win better pay, working conditions and political power. Today we are speaking with ...
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Episode 26
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Understanding the Israeli-Palestinian Colonial Conflict
NPEC Presents: "Understanding the Israeli–Palestinian Colonial Conflict,” with featured speakers: Moshé Machover and Sumaya Awad.How should we understand what is taking place in Gaza and across occupied Palestine? What history...
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1:27:17
Michael Downs on Psychoanalysis, Žižek and the Working Class
This episode is going to be different from prior episodes. Today we’re going to be talking about psychoanalysis. Marx esteemed scientific rationality. Many, including many socialists, reject psychoanalysis as a pseudoscience. I have my own ques...
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Season 1
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Episode 25
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30:43
Palestine and Socialism
October 7, 2023 Hamas executed a surprise attack on military and civilian Israeli targets, killing over 1200 people and taking around 200 hostages. Israel’s response to Hamas’s horrific actions has once again been disproportionate and genocid...
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Episode 24
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28:56
Why The Work Class? Pt 4 Sara Nelson "Solidarity is a Force Stronger than Gravity"
Sara Nelson took office as the International President of the Association of Flight Attendants-CWA, AFL-CIO on June 1, 2014, and she is currently serving her second four-year term.Sara became a United Airlines Flight Attendant in 1996 an...
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Episode 23
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32:56
Why The Work Class? Pt 3 Vivek Chibber "Why The Working Class?"
Vivek Chibber is the guest on today’s episode, discussing his essay “Why the Working Class?” which maybe not so coincidentally is the name of our series. In this episode Vivek not only answers the question he proposes to answer, but he talks so...
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Episode 22
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