{"id":27505,"date":"2019-05-17T20:10:18","date_gmt":"2019-05-18T00:10:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/?p=27505"},"modified":"2019-05-17T20:24:27","modified_gmt":"2019-05-18T00:24:27","slug":"why-socialism-with-bhaskar-sunkara","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/2019\/05\/17\/why-socialism-with-bhaskar-sunkara\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Socialism? With Bhaskar Sunkara"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>The Real News Network <\/em>has a two part series starting with the video <em><a href=\"https:\/\/therealnews.com\/stories\/why-socialism-with-bhaskar-sunkara\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Why Socialism? With Bhaskar Sunkara<\/a><\/em>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nMost people know capitalism is unjust. Jacobin founder Bhaskar Sunkara says he wrote The Socialist Manifesto to lay out an alternative.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<div style=\"text-align:center\">\n    <iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/f_PEF1Mexhg\" style=\"border: thick ridge #009900;\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div>\n<pre>\r\n<\/pre>\n<p>The second video is <a href=\"https:\/\/therealnews.com\/stories\/what-would-us-socialism-look-like-with-bhaskar-sunkara-2-2\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">What Would US Socialism Look Like? with Bhaskar Sunkara<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nBhaskar Sunkara, founder of Jacobin and author of The Socialist Manifesto, explains what socialism could actually look like in the United States\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<div style=\"text-align:center\">\n    <iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/CYxi1_z0okY\"  style=\"border: thick ridge #009900;\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div>\n<pre>\r\n<\/pre>\n<p>What excites me about these interviews is the chance to learn more about socialism than I currently know. The book <a href=\"https:\/\/www.basicbooks.com\/titles\/bhaskar-sunkara\/the-socialist-manifesto\/9781541674004\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">The Socialist Manifesto: The Case for Radical Politics in an Era of Extreme Inequality<\/a> seems like it would start me out at the beginning of a conversation. Professor Richard Wolff talks about this subject in his videos and on his web site <a href=\"https:\/\/www.democracyatwork.info\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Democracy At Work<\/a>, but I feel like I am joining in the middle of the conversation.    I have the same problem with Bhaskar Sunkara&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/jacobinmag.com\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Jacobin Magazine<\/a>.  The book should help me understand these other two sources more fully.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Real News Network has a two part series starting with the video Why Socialism? With Bhaskar Sunkara. Most people know capitalism is unjust. Jacobin founder Bhaskar Sunkara says he wrote The Socialist Manifesto to lay out an alternative. The second video is What Would US Socialism Look Like? with Bhaskar Sunkara. Bhaskar Sunkara, founder [&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-27505","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\/27505","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=27505"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27505\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27511,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27505\/revisions\/27511"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27505"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27505"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27505"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}