Episode 64: A Case for Militant Politics

This episode starts with what inspired me to start doing the show. Then focuses on how big reforms get done and how important it is to be militant looking at the new deal era and the growth of unions.
I then go into what I would call good socialist policy with a housing guarantee but a mis-save cut other topics like public banking and free mass transit, which are listed in the sources to read about.

Music Interlude: The Young Idealists, by Lloyd Cole

Sources:

How the radicals win reforms with direct Action
www.leftvoice.org/how-are-radical-reforms-won-lessons-from-the-new-deal
Housing policy; go public and go big.
www.curbed.com/2019/9/16/20867963/for-rent-apartment-affordable-housing-homes-guarantee
Lost and Unread
Free Mass Transit
www.france24.com/en/20190831-france-dunkirk-free-transportation-bus-success-climate-cities
Limited Public Banking comes to Cali and LA
www.commondreams.org/news/2019/10/03/stunning-rebuke-predatory-wall-street-megabanks-california-gov-signs-law-allowing
full critic of Soc Dem Green New Deal, Call for Planning
www.leftvoice.org/a-green-new-deal-cant-save-us-a-planned-economy-can