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Oct 19, 2024 | 
realprogressives.substack.com | Real Progressives
Coup Save MMTSteve’s recent appearance as a guest on Coup Save America, with host Sean St. Heart. MMT from a working-class perspective. By Real Progressives
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Oct 12, 2024 | 
realprogressives.substack.com | Real Progressives
If NIMBY is the classist rejection of affordable housing ("Not in my back yard”), then YIMBY is sold as the progressive counter to it: “Yes, in my back yard; because I believe affordable housing should be widely available, even in my own neighborhood.” But of course, housing development has nothing to do with the needs of the poor or the working class. It has nothing to do with the public purpose.
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Sep 28, 2024 | 
realprogressives.substack.com | Real Progressives
Steve’s guests are Charles Derber and Yale Magrass, authors of Who Owns Democracy: The Real Deep State and the Struggle Over Class and Caste in America. The concept of the deep state has been employed by different political ideologies, most recently the right under Trump. But its existence is real, and its service to the ruling class can be traced back to the founding of the US. Among other ideas, Charles and Yale stress the distinction between shallow democracy and the real thing.
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Sep 24, 2024 | 
realprogressives.substack.com | Real Progressives
**Milestone 300! We dedicate this, the 300th weekly episode, to our loyal listeners, and we wish to recognize the valiant work of our underpaid podcast crew – correction: our unpaid podcast crew – who have put in thousands of hours editing audio, correcting transcripts, writing show notes, creating artwork, and posting promos on social media.
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Sep 21, 2024 | 
realprogressives.substack.com | Erin Remblance |Real Progressives |Ndongo Samba Sylla |Thomas Fazi
When people reject the concept of degrowth are they suggesting society continue to allow capital to ravage the earth? Are they saying the countries of the global North should continue exploiting and extracting from the global South? Are they pushing for more growth? Steve’s guest, Erin Remblance is an Australian researcher and activist who was spurred into action six years ago when the IPCC released their special report on global warming of 1.5°C.
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Sep 14, 2024 | 
realprogressives.substack.com | Real Progressives
**Find a transcript of each week’s episode on our Substack, where we also offer links to resources discussed in the interview. Subscribe now at https://realprogressives.substack.com/Daniel Conceição is back to discuss the social damage of rentier capitalism and the potential to address it through the insights of Modern Monetary Theory. Real Progressives Substack is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber.
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Sep 7, 2024 | 
realprogressives.substack.com | Nolan Higdon |Real Progressives
**Join us Tuesday evenings for Macro ‘n Chill, an informal gathering where we listen to and discuss this podcast. Register here for our September 10th session https://events.teams.microsoft.com/event/29d4cc27-0123-4885-aaa8-6ff95947498d@7d53fbd0-6b43-4143-9400-6b0b36a25e55Steve’s guest is Nolan Higdon, an author and expert in media literacy.
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Aug 31, 2024 | 
realprogressives.substack.com | Real Progressives
Macro N Cheese brings you another twist. A couple of months ago, Steve appeared as a guest on 1Dime Radio in a two-part series that we’re now presenting as a single episode. Tony has been on our podcast several times, now Steve is on his turf. The result is a productive meeting of the minds. He and Steve both view the world through a Marxist lens, and they both agree Marxists need MMT.
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Aug 24, 2024 | 
realprogressives.substack.com | Real Progressives
Let us never become immune to shock and outrage over the US government’s failure to guarantee its citizens a safe clean water supply. We must be outraged by the power that private players hold over us all with the blessings and collusion of officials whose titles suggest they should protect us. Investigative journalist Jordan Chariton has been reporting on the Flint water crisis for nearly a decade.
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Aug 17, 2024 | 
realprogressives.substack.com | Real Progressives |Brett Scott
The 2024 fictional film “Civil War” shows an America that has been fractured into armed factions. It’s not the dystopian fantasy that interests us here, however, it’s the collapse of the currency! In the movie, the US dollar has lost its value, like the fate of Confederate money after the (real) US Civil War.
