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Mentioned in 5 episodes

Prisoners of the American dream

Book • 1986

Author

Mike Davis

Mentioned by

Mentioned in 5 episodes

Mentioned by

Tony of 1Dime

as a particularly good Mike Davis book while identifying Davis as a Marxist historian of Los Angeles.

22 snips

Did The Left Get COVID Wrong? (Ft. Christian Parenti)

Mentioned by

Jared Ware

in comparison to Sakai's work on the lack of a revolutionary communist party in the United States.

13 snips

Reading J. Sakai's "Settlers" w/ Jared Ware (Pt.1)

Mentioned by

Daniel Tutt

as Mike Davis’s history of the American working class and his challenge to the idea of a terminally liberal United States.

13 snips

/562/ No More Populist Shortcuts? ft. Daniel Tutt & C. Derick Varn

Discussed by

Daniel Denver

and read from and by

Mike Davis

as his central book explaining U.S. labor and racial divides.

Mike Davis on Prisoners of the American Dream

Recommended by

Daniel Denver

and

Ben Mabie

as a landmark analysis of American class formation, political defeats, and social development.

Mailbag!

Mentioned by

Ben Mabey

while discussing Mike Davis’s analysis of the cumulative impact of historical defeats on American workers.

21. Coda

Praised by Daniel Denvir and

Ben Mabie

as a foundational analysis of American class formation and the accumulated effects of political victories and defeats.

The Dig: Mailbag! w/ Ben Mabie

Mentioned by hosts to illustrate how the CP shifted toward shoring up liberal coalition leaders, per Mike Davis's analysis.

11. Who Gets the Bird? Communists and the CIO

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