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Aug 20, 2022
Interview with Nora and Billie of the Westside Olympia Starbucks
My comrade from DSA Isaac Wagnitz and I are proud to share with you our latest episode of Radio Socialist Olympia. We're extending our break here from the Why We're Socialists series to interview Billie and Nora, two of the Starbucks workers and union organizers behind the successful union campaign at the Cooper Point Starbucks in Westside Olympia. Note: we mention the Tumwater Starbucks in this episode. Since this episode was recorded the Tumwater location won their vote 12-3.
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Jun 30, 2022
Interview with Michael Hines, President of UFCW 367
My comrade from DSA Isaac Wagnitz and I are proud to share with you our latest episode of Radio Socialist Olympia. We're taking a break here from the Why We're Socialists series to interview Michael Hines, president of UFCW 367, which represents around 8,000 grocery workers in the South Puget Sound area. I couldn't make it to record this episode, so it'll just be Isaac asking the questions. The interview covers a lot of ground about the state of the grocery industry during and after the Covid-19 pandemic, and how changes in the industry have affected workers. Next up after this will be an interview with Norah and Billie, two workers from the Cooper Point Starbucks in Westside Olympia, who succeeded in winning a union 19-2! We hope you enjoy this episode and we'll try to have that next episode of Why We're Socialists out soon.
Sources:
Hungry at the Table, a study conducted by Economic Round Table https://economicrt.org/publication/hungry-at-the-table/
Food Retail: Financial Trends, Industry Challenges & Opportunities for Workers: a slideshow that was part of a presentation at the UFCW 367 leadership conference in January 2022 https://drive.google.com/file/d/1qTlWlgwmbqsXgVyAVAiTHF72TRv0NfWy/view?fbclid=IwAR0DernkDCPaq4fSNLHv-k1rcjl9YqljNf5wsxWDGk00Sn2ZP3ZLwMJRQQw
DSA Labor: The Rank & File Strategy
https://rfs.dsausa.org/
Home in Tacoma for All platform:
https://actionnetwork.org/petitions/home-in-tacoma-for-all-platform/
Matt Bruening: When McDonald’s Came to Denmark
https://mattbruenig.com/2021/09/20/when-mcdonalds-came-to-denmark/
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Mar 4, 2022
Why we're socialists (and not liberals): Part 3, Ultraleftism
Welcome to the third episode of Why We're Socialists (and not Liberals). In this episode we go discuss ultraleftism, where it came from, and what to do about it. As we will continue to do, we have included our sources so you can read them for yourself.
The Liberal to Ultraleft Pipeline, Patrick Dalton, 2021 https://washingtonsocialist.mdcdsa.org/ws-articles/21-03-breaking-the-cycle
Liberalism, Ultraleftism, or Mass Action? Peter Camejo, 1970
https://www.marxists.org/archive/camejo/1970/ultraleftismormassaction.htm
Anatomy of the Micro-Sect, Hal Draper, 1973
https://www.marxists.org/archive/draper/1973/xx/microsect.htm
Left-wing Communism, an Infantile Disorder, Lenin, 1920 https://www.marxists.org/ebooks/lenin/index.htm
Exiting the Vampire Castle, Mark Fisher, 2013
https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/opendemocracyuk/exiting-vampire-castle/
Ultraliberalism: The Dominant Tendency of the American Left, Ramsin Canon, 2022 https://midwestsocialist.com/2022/02/07/ultraliberalism-the-dominant-tendency-of-the-american-left/
You Can’t Fake It, by Alex Gourevitch, Current Moment and Jacobin, 2017
https://jacobinmag.com/2017/02/general-strike-donald-trump-womens-march-immigration-ban-ludlow-strike
1947 Taft-Hartley Substantive Provisions, National Labor Relations Board https://www.nlrb.gov/about-nlrb/who-we-are/our-history/1947-taft-hartley-substantive-provisions
#2: Amendment to Resolution #5 – Building Worker Power to Win Democratic Socialism: A Labor Strategy for DSA in 2021-2023, Socialist Alternative. https://convention2021.dsausa.org/secondary-amendments-to-resolutions/#P1D
Related reading
The Poisoned Chalice of Hashtag Activism, Amber A'lee Frost, Catalyst https://catalyst-journal.com/2020/09/the-poisoned-chalice-of-hashtag-activism
NGOism: The Politics of the Third Sector, Benjamin Y. Fong and Melissa Naschek https://catalyst-journal.com/2021/05/ngoism-the-politics-of-the-third-sector
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Dec 4, 2021
Why we're socialists (and not liberals): Part 2, Compare & Contrast
This is the second part of our series on why we're socialist and not liberals. In this episode we give a broad overview of the historical development of liberalism and socialism as ideologies, and then use that to explain how each is a product of their respective historical and material contexts. We also compare and contrast the two ideologies and attempt to show how socialism is a distinct ideology, and not merely the left wing of liberalism or progressivism as many people seem to believe.
Sources
Revolutions podcast, by Mike Duncan
Episode 1.12b- Supplemental The Diggers, by Mike Duncan
Episodes 3.1-3.54 on the French Revolution, by Mike Duncan
Episodes 8.1-8.33 on the 1848 Revolutions, by Mike Duncan
Episode 10.3 - The Three Pillars of Marxism (as an alternative to the essay by Lenin)
Liberalism at Large: The World According to The Economist, by Alexander Zevin
The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte, Karl Marx
‘“Neoliberalism” isn’t an empty epithet. It’s a real, powerful set of ideas.’ Mike Konczal, writing for Vox.
The Communist Manifesto, by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels
The Three Sources and Three Component Parts of Marxism, by V.I. Lenin
Behind the Bastards podcast, The Non-Nazi Bastards Who Helped Hitler Rise to Power, by Robert Evans.
The Romance of American Communism, by Vivian Gornick.
Philosophize This! podcast, by Steven West
Episode 132: Carl Schmitt on Liberalism, pt. 1
Episode 133: Carl Schmitt on Liberalism, pt. 2
Suggested reading
Liberalism: A Counter-History by Domenico Losurdo
Socialism: Utopian and Scientific by Friedrich Engels
The Principle of Self-Emancipation in Marx and Engels by Hal Draper
Marxism and Politics by Ralph Miliband
Mind and Politics: An Approach to the Meaning of Liberal and Socialist Individualism by Ellen Meiksins Wood
A People’s Guide to Capitalism: An Introduction to Marxist Economics by Hadas Thier
Racecraft: The Soul of Inequality in America by Barbara and Karen Fields
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Oct 1, 2021
Why we're socialists (and not liberals): Part 1, Introduction
This is the first episode in a new series we're calling "Why we're socialists (and not liberals)." In it we give definitions of liberalism and socialism, broad overviews of the philosophical and ideological distinctions between the two, and explain what motivated us to start this new series. we hope you enjoy it and find it educational.
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