Our opening song is, rather mischievously, “Snowflakes and Sunshine,” from the Ornette Coleman Trio, live in Stockholm in 1965…they got there before the neoliberal economists. Last week’s show with Rob Larson on the Intellectual opportunism of libertarians who sing holy praise to Capitalism pointed out the ways in which actually existing capitalism keeps most of us in chains; and that those …
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Interchange – Walking the Talk: The Revolutionary Abolitionist Benjamin Lay
Today, the curious case of Benjamin Lay: Englishman, Quaker, cobbler, sailor, cultural shock firebrand, cave dweller, autodidact, animal liberationist, and outspoken critic of the hypocrisy of slave-owning Quakers in 18th century Pennsylvania. He would become known as one of the last radicals of the English revolution — an uprising in the mid 17th century against royal power, and an early …
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