Ralph Miliband @ LSE

@RMilibandLSE

An annual series of public lectures and events in honour of political thinker Ralph Miliband organised by the Ralph Miliband Programme at the LSE.

London School of Economics, UK
Joined April 2012

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  1. What can we learn from the extraordinary life of Dr Rosa Luxemburg? Find out with 07/12

  2. New LSE event podcast! The American Election and the Left ft

  3. Come along to Rethinking Capitalism, an evening with on 30/11

  4. That's it for tonight. Thanks to everyone who came and all our brilliant speakers

  5. . on white backlash and Obama: "they're going to try to erase him, by erasing his legislation"

  6. . says this was a racial backlash/payback election. Many knew "hell would be paid" after Obama's election in '08.

  7. Gary Gerstle: In USA, social change has always relied on social movements outside of conventional politics.

  8. . just compared social media to cheap vodka. How true.

  9. Greer: we have movements that are coalescing around men. That's something we should be careful about

  10. Greer: the media is the first place there will be normalisation

  11. Erlanger: the more savage the capitalism, the more savage the populism

  12. Erlanger: I don't believe in global phenomenon. We like to think we have global values, we don't

  13. Gerstle: Socialism no longer carries the serious stigma is did during the Cold War

  14. Gerstle: we're in uncharted territory here so there's only so much we can draw on the past to think about it

  15. Greer: this election was a backlash - just like Brexit

  16. Greer: what we must do on the left is maintain outrage in the face of normalisation

  17. Very important discussion underway this evening on the implications of the US elections for the Left

  18. Erlanger: the biggest problem is there is a big group of people who used to vote left and don't anymore.

  19. Erlanger: the Labour Party is afraid to talk about immigration. That is a tremendous problem

  20. Free speech is a right, and money can be interpreted in the US as freedom of speech. This upholds the ideas of the elite.

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