This Is Hell!

A few years ago I was giving a talk and somebody after the talk was saying 'You know, honestly, I have to be a socialist, that's the only retirement program I can imagine. Because I'll never be able to earn enough to live if we don't have socialism.'...I think more and more people are recognizing that the only way we can have a future, globally and in the United States, is if we get rid of rapacious, exploitative capitalism and actually build together a system that will protect people and the planet, that will let people and the planet flourish.

Chuck is out of action this week COVID, so we are featuring past interviews with upcoming guests who all have new books coming out on the days we are scheduled to interview them in upcoming weeks. Today's episode features two guests whose work imagine a more emancipatory, dignified, sustainable future should socialist imperatives govern the future of human development. First up is political scientist Jodi Dean, who joined us in 2022 to discuss her book Socialist Reconstruction: A Better Future for the United States from 1804 Books. Physicist and researcher Erald Kolasi follows in a 2021 interview in which he outlines his... read more