Jacobin Radio Folgen

Yanis Varoufakis talks about life under COVID-19, the economic crisis, vultures stripping Greece, and democratizing the European Union (includes bonus audio clip of Jim Cramer recalling his Trotskyist past).

Dan interviews the makers of a new podcast series telling the history of the Iraq War.Blowback is available only on Stitcher Premium—and for a month you can listen for free. Go to stitcherpremium.com and sign up with the code BLOWBACK.Support this podcast at Patreon.com/TheDig

We cover chapters one and two — "Members Unlimited" and "Christian Apollyon" — on this week's episode. Rachel Foxley, a professor of history at the University of Reading and author of The Levellers: Radical Political Thought in the English Revolution, joins us to talk about the English Revolution. Secondary Reading: Rachel Foxley, The Levellers (Manchester University Press, 2013). Christopher Hill, The Experience of Defeat(Verso, 2017). Peter Linebaugh and Marcus Rediker, The Many-Headed Hydra(Verso, 2014). CB Macpherson, The Political Theory of Possessive Individualism (Oxford University Press, 2011). Barrington Moore, Jr., Social Origins of Dictatorship and Democracy (Beacon Press, 1993). Ellen Meiksins Wood, Democracy Against Capitalism(Cambridge University Press, 1995).