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G&R Episode 35: The New Left and the Next Left. What we can learn from 1960s radicals.

G&R Episode 35: The New Left and the Next Left. What we can learn from 1960s radicals.

FromGreen & Red: Podcasts for Scrappy Radicals


G&R Episode 35: The New Left and the Next Left. What we can learn from 1960s radicals.

FromGreen & Red: Podcasts for Scrappy Radicals

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Length:
62 minutes
Released:
Aug 18, 2020
Format:
Podcast episode

Description

In today's episode, Bob and Scott have a free-wheeling discussion about the origins of the New Left, the Wisconsin School (school of thought around the history of foreign relations), and the how these radical ideas still have currency in today's emerging movements. 
This episode is a tribute to esteemed diplomatic historian Thomas McCormick who passed away on July 25th, 2020.

Learn More:

William Appleman Williams, The Tragedy of American Diplomacy
Thomas McCormick, China Market: America’s Quest for Informal Empire, 1893-1901 
Lloyd Gardner, Economic Aspects of New Deal Diplomacy
Walter LeFeber, The New Empire: An Interpretation of American Expansion, 1860–1898


From the Green and Red team:

Our interview with New Left historian and activist Staughton Lynd: https://bit.ly/StaughtonGandR
And listen to our conversation with filmmaker David Martinez on one of the New Left's influences, radical sociologist Immanuel Wallerstein: https://bit.ly/WallersteinGandR  
Bob Buzzanco: What Happened to the New Left? 


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This is a Green and Red Podcast production. "Green and Red Blues" by Moody. Editing by Scott. Produced by Scott (@sparki1969) and Bob  (@bobbuzzanco).
Released:
Aug 18, 2020
Format:
Podcast episode

Titles in the series (100)

Welcome to our scrappy podcast. Bob Buzzanco and Scott Parkin co-host a regular podcast to discuss radical environmental and anti-capitalist politics with organizers, academics, artists and more. Bob Buzzanco is a professor of history at the University of Houston. He specializes in, writes about and talks on the Vietnam War era, foreign policy, Vietnam, radical social movements, economics, and other stuff. Scott Parkin is climate organizer based in the San Francisco Bay Area. He has organized campaigns against Wall Street banks, mountaintop removal coal mining and the Keystone XL pipeline.