On today’s episode, Allen catches up with friend of the show Leo Panitch to discuss “A World Turned Upside Down?”, the 2019 edition of the Socialist Register. The volume presents a series of essays about global capitalism, neoliberalism, and the rise of authoritarian politics in the 21st century.

Leo Panitch is a distinguished professor of political economy at York University in Toronto. He is co-editor of The Socialist Register and the author of numerous articles and books on contemporary capitalism, including The Making of Global Capitalism: The Political Economy of American Empire (co-authored with Sam Gindin).