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Talking Strategy, Making History

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Talking Strategy, Making History is a news podcast hosted by Richard Flacks. It has 29 episodes, with the latest published March 2026.

Each episode will focus on a different aspect or example of the general theme. Our kick-off frame is the awkward position that progressives find themselves in. It seems obvious, at least to a significant portion of Leftists, that “working within the Democratic Party” has to be part of any realistic strategy for making substantive, social democratic or radical change in the United States. What is far less clear is what this means practically, in terms of organization and elections. For many years, the slogan of the Left has been to work both “inside and outside” the Democratic Party. But what does that “inside” part actually look like?The podcast project comes from our experience as progressive activists--and from the urgency of now. Dick Flacks taught sociology at UC Santa Barbara and Umiversity of Chicago for 60 years. He's of the founding generation of Students for a Democratic Society and helped write the Port Huron Statement (along with Tom Hayden and the big Lebowski). He and hi

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#55: Daraka & Dick Talk About the State of California Democrats
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#54: Talking with Ali Esbati About What's Left of Nordic Social Democracy
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#53 Talking with University of Minnesota Professor Joshua Page on the streets of Minneapolis
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#52 Talking with reform activist Sam Rosenthal about How Democrats lost in 2024 and what is to be done
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#51 Talking about Seattle's astonishing mayoral election with union organizer Michael Laslett & Prof Jim Gregory
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#50 Daraka & Dick talking about what the recent election might mean for living in the USA
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#49 Talking with faculty leaders about the Trump assault on the University of California
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#48 Talking with David Duhalde on Understanding DSA
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#47 Talking with J.W. Mason about what can Zohran accomplish?
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#46 Talking with Michael Podhorzer on how to understand elections
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#45 Talking with Nelson Lichtenstein about the state of the unions
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#44 Talking with Eric Blanc about how workers are now self-organizing
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#43 Talking about Class, Identity Politics & DEI
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#42 Talking with Harley Augustino About Deep Organizing
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"#41: Starting Season 4: 3R's for Trump Time
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BONUS: Talking About Ethel Rosenberg with her son, Michael Meeropol
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BONUS: Jeremy Brecher talks about the Green New Deal From Below
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#40 Dick & Daraka Talk Post-Election
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#39 Talking About Democratic Prospects with Harold Meyerson
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#38 Talking with Maurice Isserman: Learning from the Tragedy of American Communism
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#37 Talking with Phyllis Bennis
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#36 Talking with Vlad and Matthew, leftwing zionists
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#35 Talking with Sherene Sekaily, Palestine Scholar
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#34 Talking with Rosie, UCSB Protester
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#33 Daraka & Dick talking about the campus protests
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#32 Talking With Palestinian-American Activist Murad "Moe" Samara
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#31 Talking with Meretz Party leader Uri Zaki
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#30 Talking With Jewish Currents Editor Arielle Angel
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#29 Daraka & Dick talk about the Jewish Question
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