https://tankie.tube/videos/watch/b9fbc5ce-c295-4a4b-956b-fc87a7dbb3b0 Democratic socialist Zohran Mamdani has won the New York city election. The campaign undoubtedly has elevated and emboldened socialism to being a serious political force in American politics. It signifies that we are in the twilight of our current period of capitalism, the paradigm is shifting. What is acceptable political discourse now, was career ruining a decade ago. However, we have been here before, the world has been here before, at numerous points. What we know today as the golden age of capitalism, the post-world-war II period, was also tail-ended by ambitious democratic socialists. From May 1968 onwards through the 1970s, there was a renewal of radical politics on an international level. But we usually aren’t told that story - we’re only told about the reaction, the reaction that we know today as neoliberalism. But why did the socialists of the previous generation fail? Is it worth looking back to see what might come in the future? Well to find out, we’re going to examine one of the most infamous Prime Ministers in… Australia. Gough Whitlam is remembered across Australia for being a maverick, a rebel, a progressive icon, one who was coup’d by the Americans for being too woke. But this is only half of the story. In telling the rest of it, we may learn why democratic socialism, necessarily, is a failed political project. 0:00-1:28 intro 1:28-3:46 Whitlam in opposition 3:46-5:18 prelude to government 5:18-7:17 Whitlam in government 7:17-10:30 relations of production 10:30- 14:39 the most dramatic reversal 14:39-15:53 concluding thoughts sources and script: https://docs.google.com/document/d/17FFX5Y2CgpAbSdcKrYMpqRinEgQTg0bxuoByt2riPWw/edit?usp=sharing Wed, 08 Apr 2026 23:14:00 GMT https://validator.w3.org/feed/docs/rss2.html PeerTube - https://tankie.tube https://tankie.tube/lazy-static/avatars/3ba3ff73-a8b6-49c9-add8-9653ef090c7f.webp https://tankie.tube/videos/watch/b9fbc5ce-c295-4a4b-956b-fc87a7dbb3b0 All rights reserved, unless otherwise specified in the terms specified at https://tankie.tube/about and potential licenses granted by each content's rightholder.