Megan Romer

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The New Yorker Radio Hour · How Socialist Is the D.S.A.? Megan Romer Explains · 7 Aug 2026 podcast

I think that people see that capitalism is not working for them.

And I think uh, you know, when you talk to people on the doors, they don't care if you're quoting Marx or Thomas Jefferson.

They care about whether or not uh their their building is safe, whether or not there are rats crawling around in their children's bedrooms.

And you can say, hey, guess what?

There's this thing in Vienna called the Karl Marx Hof.

Uh, and it's a house, and it's called named after Karl Marx, and it is.

Dignified, clean, high quality social housing.

And that it that is a real thing that exists.

Um I I think people aren't afraid of.

I wish I wish that that more socialist experiments could be happening without CIA interference, without US uh sanctions, messing with the you know, I wish that we weren't doing, you know, spending billions of dollars to destabilize Cuba.

Um I I think I think there are

Lessons we can take from different socialist projects.

I think the Cuban family code is a really interesting one in participatory democracy and the way that they changed their constitution to make it more egalitarian.

It is now in the world the most uh the most queer friendly uh constitution that exists.

I also think, you know, there are some serious problems and and I think that those problems are caused by the fact that we are spending billions of dollars to destabilize them and they overcorrect.

Uh, I would not call Hamas queer friendly.

I would not say that you can get a lot of social rights when you're under siege.

I think that most queer people who have been killed in Palestine have been killed by Israeli bombs.

Um, but obviously Russia is this oligarchic dictatorship.

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