On this week's episode of Rocinante, Angela is joined by László Molnárfi. Has the left abandoned its working-class roots by embracing a liberal cultural politics of moralism and identity, thereby making itself irrelevant and pushing people toward right-wing populism? How can a revitalized socialist movement reclaim popular appeal by focusing on material issues like housing and wages, while constructively engaging with questions of nationalism, migration, and sovereignty?

Check out László's work here: https://linktr.ee/lacicloud

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We're back from the Christmas break with a three hour discussion of Julian Jackson's biography of Charles De Gaulle.

https://www.powells.com/book/de-gaulle-9781913368784

We hope you enjoyed your holiday festivities because we're going on a strict diet of andouillette and unfiltered cigarettes in 2026.

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Sean and Angela dive into the provocative 1998 book The Fix. Shifting the budget to focus heavily on treatment over law enforcement dramatically reduced the heroin crisis and crime rates. Why did this successful, evidence-based strategy disappear, leading to our current exponential crisis?

Find The Fix here:

https://www.powells.com/book/fix-9780520223356

Thanks to Jackson Duke for tracking down the 48 Hours documentary Heroin Connection, mentioned in the book:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MHSna7lpYcE

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This week Angela and Sean are joined by comrade Malcom Kyeyune to discuss the triumph of mild social democracy with Twelver characteristics, the importance of packing the security services with loyalists, the peril of cutting food aid to the working poor, and more!

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Angela and Sean discuss the central role of Great Britain in of the horrors of the past and the present through two books:

Roger Casement's "The Crime Against Europe" https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/14728

John Newsinger's "The Blood Never Dried: A People's History of the British Empire" https://www.abebooks.com/servlet/BookDetailsPL?bi=22826312867

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Angela is joined by Toby Shandy to discuss Don Quixote Part 1, the first half of the first modern novel. The invention of the comedic duo and the unreliable narrator reach into the present from the 1600s to teach us the importance of the highest virtue: never allowing anything or anyone to make you less insane.

You can find Toby on Substack: https://tobyshandy.substack.com/

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