Peace or Barbarism! Guest Morgan Spector on Leftist Foreign Policy, Anti-Imperialism, and a Crisis of Capitalism | Ep. 298
Critically acclaimed actor and star of HBO’s The Gilded Age, Morgan Spector, joins me for a special, ambitious, and wide-ranging episode of the pod:
Why did the US invade Iran? What does it have to do with American imperial decline? Why do oligarchs need the permanent war economy?
Why is left populism impossible without an anti-war movement?
What should a leftist or progressive foreign policy actually look like?
Is AOC an organic intellectual, and what do we need from her foreign policy?
Why did Bernie Sanders shift from talking about kleptocracy to talking about oligarchy?
What are the prospects for left populism at home and anti-imperialism abroad?
And why is political reform both possible and desirable in a revolutionary conjuncture?
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ICYMI:
Finally had time to listen to this. Wow. My brain is on fire! It felt like being transported back to some of my favorite humanities lectures as an undergrad. I’ll make time to read your book soon, too.
Love hearing Van and Morgan dream up the way forward for a serious left foreign policy! Keep it going.