56 - Max Elbaum and Lessons Learned from the New Communist Movement and the SDS by Giving the Mic to the Wrong Person Podcast

Max Elbaum from Verso Books, author of _Revolution in the Air: Sixties Radicals Turn to Lenin, Mao and Che_, was in Portland last month and sat for an interview with myself and Kevin from Regrettable Century. Stay tuned for his story about the Weather Underground and Bob Avakian!

Here’s the website for Max’s book: https://revolutionintheair.org

Max's interview in Jacobin: "Learning from the New Communist Movement" https://www.jacobinmag.com/2018/09/max-elbaum-new-communist-movement-socialism-organizing

Kevin's podcast: http://regrettablecentury.buzzsprout.com/

Max Elbaum's panel talk with members of Portland DSA's Red Caucus: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b_01IQn0MU8

Opening sound clip: "Communists on Campus: The Weather Underground" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tChf9wJKARA
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-Panopticon

-David Blight's _Frederick Douglass: Prophet of Freedom_
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