{"id":25300,"date":"2018-03-15T16:36:47","date_gmt":"2018-03-15T20:36:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/?p=25300"},"modified":"2018-03-15T16:36:47","modified_gmt":"2018-03-15T20:36:47","slug":"is-another-world-possible-leo-panitch-on-rai-4-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/2018\/03\/15\/is-another-world-possible-leo-panitch-on-rai-4-4\/","title":{"rendered":"Is Another World Possible? &#8211; Leo Panitch on RAI (4\/4)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>The Real News Network<\/em> has the interview <a href=\"http:\/\/therealnews.com\/t2\/story:21338:Is-Another-World-Possible%3F---Leo-Panitch-on-RAI-%2844%29\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Is Another World Possible? &#8211; Leo Panitch on RAI (4\/4)<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nOn Reality Asserts Itself, Prof. Leo Panitch says it\u2019s a dilemma that the gradualism of European social-democracy and attempts at a more radical transformation have so far both failed; Panitch says a first step towards democratizing the economy is to make finance a public utility &#8211; with host Paul Jay\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<div style=\"text-align:center\">\n    <iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/Awbmj6uc0jI?rel=0\" style-\"border: thick ridge #009900;\" allow=\"autoplay; encrypted-media\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div>\n<pre class=\"plain\">\r\n<\/pre>\n<p>This is a great interview, not because it provides all the answers.  It is great because it asks some very intriguing questions.  Making finance a public utility is a suggestion that is a rather puny part of what makes this interview so good.  This is the first discussion that I have heard in a long time that doesn&#8217;t just rehash the standard arguments about socialism  and capitalism.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Real News Network has the interview Is Another World Possible? &#8211; Leo Panitch on RAI (4\/4). On Reality Asserts Itself, Prof. Leo Panitch says it\u2019s a dilemma that the gradualism of European social-democracy and attempts at a more radical transformation have so far both failed; Panitch says a first step towards democratizing the economy [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[166],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-25300","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-stevegsposts","7":"czr-hentry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25300","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25300"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25300\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25301,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25300\/revisions\/25301"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25300"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25300"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25300"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}