Left Reckoning

Get full episode here: https://www.patreon.com/posts/marx-reading-on-65865594?utm_medium=clipboard_copy&utm_source=copy_to_clipboard&utm_campaign=postshareIn the newest installment of the Marx reading series, David and Matt discuss Marx's Theses On Feuerbach, which ends with the famous contention: The philosophers have only interpreted the world, in various ways; the point is to change it. https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1845/theses/theses.htm

We are joined by Jacobin writer Luke Savage (@lukewsavage) author of The Dead Center (pre-order below) to talk about liberalism at the end of history and why liberals struggle so much with power.   https://www.orbooks.com/catalog/the-dead-center/  Also: James Lindsay doesn't know basic history and What is Crypto Hiding: Healthcare EditionDon't forget to check out Luke's podcast Michael And Us -  @MichaelandUs patreon.com/michaelandus  ------ Get our booklist here: https://bookshop.org/lists/left-reckoning-big-book-list/  Left Reckoning goes live Wednesdays @ 7 Central. Along with the main show, there is a Griscom stream every Tuesday afternoon.   To get access to all the bonus episodes, including more Hitchens conversations & deep dives into radical US history, Lenin, James Connolly & more support the show at patreon.com/leftreckoning - for just $5 you help make the public show possible and get double the bonus content.   Support us on patreon.com/LeftReckoning  Twitter: @LeftReckoning - @mattlech - @davidgriscom  Instagram: @LeftReckoning Check out our Twitch streams at Twitch.tv/LeftReckoning

We are joined by our friend Elias Cepeda (@EliasCepeda) to talk about worker's rights in UFC, Chris Smalls and AOC. Check out Elias substack here:   https://eliascepeda.substack.com/p/lets-hear-it-for-the-good-guy-aljamain?s=rAlso, Bernie 2024, Assange extradition, and why Twitter should pay you

TO GET THIS FULL EPISODE AND ALL LEFT RECKONING SUNDAY SHOWS, GO TO PATREON.COM/LEFTRECKONING Lillian Cicerchia joins us to talk about her latest in Jacobin, "Liberal Freedoms Were Won Despite, Not Because of, Capitalism," a review of Revisiting Marx’s Critique of Liberalism: Rethinking Justice, Legality and Rights by Igor Shoikhebrod. Who are liberal rights most important to, and who won them? What was Marx's position? Lenin's? What are "formal freedoms."

Journalist Kurt Hackbarth (@KurtHackbarth) joins us to talk about AMLO's victory in the recall election, the right-wing think tanks worried about public energy, and the NYT anti-AMLO coverage.   Read up here:  https://jacobinmag.com/2022/04/us-think-tanks-amlo-morena-energy-reform-baker-instituteAlso, Greg Abbott's migrant van stunt is barely obscuring a Texas-sized border mess of his own creation. And we were right about Jayapal as CPC endorses Shontel Brown.

Wosny Lambre (@BigWos) joins David and Matt to discuss the "player empowerment era" and what capitalist exploitation of labor looks like in the context of professional basketball. Also, Starbucks and Amazon employees continue to inspire a roused labor movement in the US.

Andrew Perez (@andrewperezdc) of The Lever (fmr. known as The Daily Poster) - will be joining us to talk about the dark money behind Sinema and the fight to neuter the EPA.https://www.levernews.com/pharma-front-group-to-sinema-we-have-your-back/https://www.levernews.com/koch-machine-pressing-supreme-court-to-crush-epa/Also, the Oceti Sakowin stands up to a racist hotelier in South Dakota and management at Applebees emails the quiet part out loud

Nick Bowlin (@npbowlin) correspondent at High Country News, joins us to talk about his latest piece in the Drift Magazine about the Democratic Party and why it losing Rural America https://www.thedriftmag.com/jokes-on-them/Also: Madeline Albright died and was bad. Starbucks union wave continues strong. And Pelosi backs Cuellar.

Matt is joined by Carl Beijer (@CarlBeijer) to discuss Russia's invasion of Ukraine. Also, how North Dakota's Non-Partisan League briefly beat the two-party duopoly.

David is joined by Natalie Shure (@NatalieSurely) author of The End Of AOC's Honeymoon in the latest issue of Jacobin https://jacobinmag.com/2022/02/the-end-of-the-aoc-honeymoonJoin us for the postgame with Ben Burgis at patreon.com/leftreckoning -------Get our booklist here: https://bookshop.org/lists/left-reckoning-big-book-list/Left Reckoning goes live Wednesdays @ 7 Central. Along with the main show, there is a Griscom stream every Tuesday afternoon. To get access to all the bonus episodes, including more Hitchens conversations & deep dives into radical US history, Lenin, James Connolly & more support the show at patreon.com/leftreckoning - for just $5 you help make the public show possible and get double the bonus content. Support us on patreon.com/LeftReckoning Twitter: @LeftReckoning - @mattlech - @davidgriscom Instagram: @LeftReckoningCheck out our Twitch streams at Twitch.tv/LeftReckoning