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134 - #ShutdownAmazon ft. Richard Wolff & Chris Smalls (Patreon)

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We need to reclaim the local. Shoutout to the Kerala government & the Teamsters. RICHARD Wolff (@profwolff) joins us to talk about what this crisis means for the capitalist system. We are joined by Chris Smalls (@shutdown_amazon) to talk about the Amazon strikes. During the GEM, David breaks down the winners and losers of the covid crisis. 

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Danny Heim

Did I hear "boycott"? you bet

Eric Rhodes

Comment regards the intro. You all had good things to say about challenging capitalist homogenization and brittle global supply chains. And, Michael, you did a good job as always at adding the caveat that we must be critical in advocating localism. But let me double down: we must be vary wary of romanticizing localism: Immerwahr has shown that localism a) has been tried (in Kerala no less!) and is not a new idea (goes back and has influenced much of 20th c politics) b) it *often* replicates oppressive systems existing at macro level. If you're interested I'll toot my own horn and share a review i wrote of *Thinking Small* below. As always, thank you for your show, Left is Best "What do the CIA and Gandhi have in common? Both were advocates of what Daniel Immerwahr, professor of History at Northwestern University, calls “community development.” Immerwahr defines community development as the idea that global poverty can be alleviated by “bottom-up participation:” through decentralized democracy, civil participation, and intimate community. Community development is often understood to be opposed to more influential modernization theory: the idea that “top-down industrialization” is the key to raising all boats (42). Despite a few setbacks, Immerwahr’s book Thinking Small: The United States and the Lure of Community Development (Harvard University Press, 2015) makes its case convincingly. His case studies of community development urge historians to abandon their fawning commitment to “community.” It has blinded them to the realities of the small scale."" https://tropicsofmeta.com/2018/12/10/the-allure-of-small-things-daniel-immerwahr-on-americas-love-affair-with-community-development/