Jacobin Magazine founder Bhaskar Sunkara on Tavis Smiley

[TBF]

3. Just listened to it -

My initial impression is that I adore Tavis Smiley - he is the one who actually brings up real issues "when MLK started talking about economics they shot him in the head". Bingo. Talks about the need for militant unions, points out that the "less of two evils" approach is holding us all back. The magazine publisher talks about "we need an economic bill of rights" and in general is pretty liberal sounding. I think he's trying to present socialism in a way that doesn't scare people and in doing so loses his bite. Frankly the owners need to be a little (or a lot) scared or we're not getting anywhere.