A dangerous terrorist she joins me by skype from oakland in california thank you so much professor davis coming on going underground can i just ask you right at the beginning theres a lot of quoting of the great writer James Baldwin at the moment he actually wrote an open letter to you what did he mean when he said our bodies must render impossible the corridor to the gas chamber. Well of course James Baldwin was. Not only with a scent writer but also he was involved in a whole range of social justice issues and he took up my case wrote an open letter to me and. Argue that if they did not protect my life the same would be next if they come for you and the morning he said every do not prevent them from taking you we will be next so that is actually. That is actually very seem of the mass movements have developed against racism against the signage and any against climate injustice etc of course the words reverberate starkly today because of the use of the word gas chamber in the state of
Bush administration and later jared cohen set the precedent due to the deaths of their predecessors. Enjoy book tv now and over the weekend on cspan2. Starting out on book tv World Affairs Institute Distinguished fellow joshua project discusses the views of socialism. Thanks to jeff and charles for the hospitality. And as alluded to, this is quite an august group including im afraid a number of people who know as much about the subject asi do. Im going to do my best to leave plenty of time for giveandtake around thetable. The book, socialism is in the airright now. The book is first of all a history and im going to quickly set the history and then spend some minutes on whats happening today and then we will have a backandforth or around the table. So the term socialism was coined in the 1820s and 30s by the followers of a small group of thinkers, british and french who were not out to overthrow governments but had ideas of a Better Society of sharing and also had the quite good idea th
Silence their cell phone because this is being recorded by booktv, cspan. Im happy to introduce nathan robinson, founder and editorinchief, his new book, why you should be a socialist. He is in conversation with writer and senate reformer pete davis. It is sure to be a lively conversation. Please join me in welcoming pete davis and nathan robinson. Thank you for being here today. Nathan arrived from new orleans, louisiana. How was the flight . Everything was unobjectionable and not noteworthy in any way. We are glad to have you here. Lets do a temperature check. How many of you are already socialists . That is why we are here. Most of you, the event that convinces you of things. And original cover, fingerpointing at you. The thing, the problem a lot of the audience for this book is going to people who want to book like why you are a socialist but it is directed, the original title was socialism for people who are extremely skeptical of it. The original title was socialism for people wh
Leave plenty of time for a giveandtake around the table. Socialism is in the air right now but the book first of all is a history i will quickly set the history then spend some minutes and then we can have a back and forth. So socialism was coined by the followers of a small group of thinkers the british and french they were about to overthrow governments who had ideas of sharing and also have the quite a good idea the way to get there was to demonstrate the validity of their ideas. And they created through the mid 18 hundreds 40 or 50 of these experimental communities mostly in the United States even though these visionaries were europeans. Why in the United States . Its easy to get land and because the social mores were much more fluid and their ideas were taken seriously. Perhaps the most important was robert oh when he announced he was coming to the United States to create a community to demonstrate the validity of his ideas and was taken tremendously seriously he commissioned an a
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