In this episode we discuss Alice Malone's essay entitled “Concessions” which contains a well sourced and foundational explanation regarding 20th century history that every socialist should be aware of!  Alice illustrates how the gains and progressive feats won by workers of the Soviet Union challenged capitalist elites in the West to concede social reforms in their own countries. Reforms such as desegregation, home ownership, investment in education, public health care and more!  We cover some of these concessions as well as how they have been noticeably negatively impacted by the dissolution of the Soviet Union in the early 1990s.  Alice's article: https://redsails.org/concessions/ Alice's app on word frequency's in Marxist texts: https://alicirce.shinyapps.io/mlds/ Intro/Outro Music: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=itA4uQvnhyc