i'm glad you joined us for our conversation with bhaskar sunkara coming up right now. >>> just how far the left in this country the political left in this country have strayed from the more radical roots is a kun undrum that prompted bhaskar sunkara to find a magazine called jacobin." it attracts over 300,000 unique visits each month in addition to the print version and caught the attention of people across media landscape. bhaskar, thank you for being on this program. >> thank you. >> you are a colleague of adolph reed who wrote a piece that i read and a lot of other people read that was talked about in harpers not long ago about the left. you basically argue there is no left left in america. what is your sense of what has happened? first of all, is he right? if he's right, what happened to the left as we once knew it? >> i think professor reed as usual is normally right. he is right on this one. i would say he does the one thung i disagree with, i think he's a little more pessimistic and doesn't bring enough attention to other issues. we see a decline on political economy. there is i

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