024: Alan Sears “The Next New Left”—Live at WORT.FM!

For episode 24, we were invited to host “A Public Affair” on WORT-FM community radio here in Madison, Wisconsin. Our friend and comrade Allen Ruff hosts the Thursday program and asked us to substitute, so we gave it a shot.

We invited past guest Alan Sears to talk about his book, “The Next New Left”. Alan has published a number of articles that lead up to this book, trying to think over the problem of why there aren’t more social movements or an organized left response to this slump and austerity. Instead of dismissing the problem, he innovates by naming some concepts that have historically been the backbone of working class movements and left organizations.

Since this is a live program, we broadened out the discussion somewhat and callers periodically came on to ask questions and give comments, which Alan responds to. Being in Wisconsin, we used the “Wisconsin Uprising” of 2011 as sort of a frame to explore the ideas that he’s talking about.

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