Bhaskar Sunkara
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1,609 appearances
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first heard Dec 2022
last heard Dec 2022
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And I said, this is like 2020 campaign.
This may be 2019.
I said, Bernie, you're running for president.
You do not need to keep reminding people of your age.
Yeah.
Um, but, um, you know, he, he was politicized through the young people's socialist league, which was an old offshoot of the Norm Thomas socialist party of America.
So very old school socialist tradition, um,
Then he was engaged in labor struggles in the 60s.
He was engaged in the civil rights movement.
So he came from this old left generation that I think just had a more plain spoken, more rooted way of understanding change and socialism.
It wasn't, in my mind, polluted by academia and by some of the turn towards issues of culture and excessive focus on representation or whatever else.
It was really rooted in something
economic in a way then obviously he had all his ideas and he was also a product of the left and that he went to vermont he kind of did the back to the land thing he was basically like a not quite a hippie and an affect but he was out there trying to farm or whatever and you know cold as hell northern vermont and then he decided to
to do politics, do electoral politics.
And he failed for a long time.
He did third-party politics.
He kept losing races.
Eventually, he became, by savvy and luck and things he learned, the mayor of Burlington, Vermont.
And he just kept with the same message.
In my book, I talk about, I quote, I think, a Bernie speech.
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