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Beneath The Surface
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Sunday, November 24, 2024 10:00 am
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| Marc Cooper
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| Trump's narrow victory & transition swamp
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| Veteran journalist Marc Cooper on the landslide that wasn’t, Trump’s transition swamp, and the state of the Fourth Estate. Trump’s so-called landslide is confined to the undemocratic electoral college. His margin of victory in the popular vote is 1.6 percentage points, the smallest in more than 20 years, about 2.5 million votes out of 152 million cast. Trump may claim an historic, unprecedented mandate, but he just squeaked by. He is still dangerous but vulnerable. We talk about the dangers and the chaos to come, including the threat to formal democracy.
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Sunday, November 17, 2024 10:00 am
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| Dylan Riley
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| What is Trump & MAGA?
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Dylan Riley, who has written a great deal about fascism and far right politics joins us with his analysis of what is Trump and MAGA.
We have just elected to the Presidency a man who has been characterized as a fascist and a dire threat to democracy and constitutional rule as we know it. We get Dylan’s understanding of the specificity of Trump’s politics, the basis of his support, and the radical fascistic measures his administration intends to carry out -- including the frightening Project 2025 -- and how Trump fits in with analogous movements of the far right around the world. Central to Trump and MAGA is their reactionary gender politics that sees women’s advances at the expense of men and their traditional family role. In this sense Dylan sees Trump as more of a patrimonial misfit, a charismatic leader who incoherently rules in a patrimonial fashion more than as a consistent fascist.
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Sunday, November 10, 2024 10:00 am
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| Robert Brenner
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| Post Election Blues and Analysis
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| We look at the election results that took many of us by surprise -- giving Donald J. Trump and Republicans across the board a victory. We don’t have all the final tallies but we can look at the bigger picture, and for that I’ve asked UCLA Economic Historian Robert Brenner to join us for the post-election blues and analysis. We recorded this program on November 8, before all the votes were counted in California, Washington, Oregon and Alaska. The totals will change, Trump’s margin of victory will likely shrink, but not the overall results. We have an insufficient picture of the precise demographic of the votes. but we try to understand what happened, and how to analyze this shift to the far right.
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Sunday, October 13, 2024 10:00 am
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| Robert Brenner, Ilya Matveev, Hanna Perekhoda
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| Imperialism(s) Today
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On October 8 the Boris Kagarlitsky International Solidarity Campaign held an online conference on “Boris Kagarlitsky and the Challenges of the Left.” Although Kagarlitsky is serving a five year sentence in a Russian penal colony, he has just published a book called "The Long Retreat: Strategies to Reverse the Decline of the Left."The conference addressed Kagarlitsky’s wide ranging analysis of the left’s dilemmas in the face of multiple global crises and the advance of the far right; and his resistance along with other persecuted anti-war activists in Russia to the authoritarianism of Putin’s regime. We intend to bring the whole conference to BTS, with a stellar lineup of international scholars and activists.
Today we hear the panel “Imperialism(s) Today,” looking at the nature of imperialism historically and in the present, where Russian imperialism threatens Ukraine’s very existence as a sovereign nation. Robert Brenner begins with the theory of imperialism from before WWI through the post-war period and up to the present, essentially arguing that in the present period of American hegemony, imperialism is the weapon of weaker powers. Ilya Matveev follows examining three theorists of imperialism, Lenin, Schumpeter and Mearsheimer, looking at the Russian case through the lens of their different theories. Hanna Perekhoda, originally from Donetsk in the contested Donbas region, argues that Putin’s ideology sees Ukraine as a creation of the Western enemies of Russia – and he sees Lenin as the agent who created Ukraine and divided Russia, preventing it from becoming a leading imperial power in the world. So long as Ukraine exists in this view, Russian sovereignty is under threat.
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