How the Left Can Win

Robert Brenner and Bhaskar Sunkara on how the Left can seize the momentum and build a majority.


Our podcast series is now up and running. One of the shows we’re hosting is Jacobin Radio with Suzi Weissman, hosted by Suzi Weissman, a professor of politics at St. Mary’s College of California, author, and longtime radio host.

For her first episode, Weissman interviewed Jacobin founding editor Bhaskar Sunkara and UCLA professor and author Robert Brenner. Their wide-ranging conversation covers prospects for resistance with a rising anti-Trump sentiment but a weakened labor movement, the Democrats’ refusal to learn any lessons from November’s election, and the widespread support for a social-democratic agenda that the Left can capitalize on.

You can read an edited version of the interview below, or listen to it here. You can subscribe to Jacobin Radio with Suzi Weissman and all of our podcasts at Blubrry, iTunes, and Stitcher; ratings and reviews are much appreciated.

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