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Bhaskar Sunkara: Socialism and Communism | Lex Fridman Podcast #349

Bhaskar Sunkara: Socialism and Communism | Lex Fridman Podcast #349

The guest's own work

BookBy the guestISBN verified

The Socialist Manifesto: The Case for Radical Politics in an Era of Extreme Inequality

Bhaskar Sunkara

“you also wrote the book that we mentioned a few times the Socialist Manifesto the case for radical politics in an era of extreme inequality”— Lex Fridman
MediaBy the guest

Jacobin

Bhaskar Sunkara

“you are the founder of the magazine Jacobin of which I am a subscriber I recommend everybody subscribe whether you're on the left or the right”— Lex Fridman

Also referenced (named, not recommended)

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Bowling Alone

Robert Putnam

“there's that famous book The the Robert Putnam won bowling alone or whatever we described it”— guest
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The Spirit Level: Why More Equal Societies Almost Always Do Better

Richard Wilkinson and Kate Pickett (inferred)

“there's one book called the spirit level on inequality that was quite popular that just notes that inequality is really terrible for the psyches”— guest
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Stalin's War

Sean McMeekin (inferred)

“as I've been reading a I was going to say too much maybe not enough but a lot about you know books like Stalin's war in Ukraine”— Lex Fridman
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The Age of Extremes: A History of the World, 1914-1991

Eric Hobsbawm

“I started off reading books like Eric hopis bombs four books on history going from the 1700s all the way to 1994 the last book is age of extremes”— guest
MediaReferenced

Skyrim

Bethesda Game Studios (inferred)

“for me at least you're just about playing a lot of Skyrim this whole family relationship then I'm gonna have to work on that”— Lex Fridman