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Bhaskar Sunkara vs. Eric Levitz on Market Socialism

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Bhaskar Sunkara vs. Eric Levitz on Market Socialism

By Ben Burgis

Tuesday before last, as Eric Levitz put it in Vox, the American socialist movement “seized the commanding heights of New York City.”

I spent the evening doing a GTAA live show in the basement of a bar in Queens. (It was a lot of fun. I’m hoping we’ll have a video soon to share on the YouTube channel.) After we were done recording the podcast, there was a…

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