Bhaskar Sunkara
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1,609 appearances
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1 series
first heard Dec 2022
last heard Dec 2022
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One, it was the march for jobs and freedom.
It was the slogan, I am a man, asserting the kind of universal dignity of people.
This is what the civil rights movement was about.
And I wasn't surprised there was a lot of self-described socialists, people like Bayard Rustin, A. Philip Randolph, Martin Luther King Jr.
I mean, these were people who were...
Ella Baker, they were socialists, you know, and, and I think a lot of Americans agree with them with their immediate demands, even though they weren't themselves socialists, but it was a very materialistic struggle.
And I think a lot of this has been co-opted into just some sort of vague and, you know, just disconcerting complaints about language or culture and so on.
Martin Luther King, I think, broadly called himself at various points in his life a Christian socialist or a democratic socialist, especially after his speech against the Vietnam War in the Riverside Church.
I think that was 67.
The last years of his life, he became much more involved in struggles against the war and also struggles for workers' rights.
You know, he was assassinated when he was at a rally at workers' rights.
So he thought the next battle was going to be an economic battle.
He had this famous line where he said, I don't just want to integrate the lunch counter if it means that we can't afford to order a burger while we're there.
You know, that was the line along those lines.
And I think that got to his point where the civil rights struggle was part of a step forward.
building some sort of wider movement.
So he and these other civil rights leaders were very much interested in working with organized labor, working with, you know, the left as it was constructed then, and building some sort of mass base for not just rights, but redistribution.
Albert Einstein was one.
Albert Einstein wrote an article for the first issue of this left-wing magazine.
It's actually still publishing today called Monthly Review.
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