{"podcast":{"title":"Cosmopod","slug":"cosmopod-533620","podcast_index_feed_id":533620,"rss_url":"https://cosmopod.libsyn.com/rss","website_url":"https://www.cosmonautmag.com/","image_url":"https://static.libsyn.com/p/assets/3/8/4/a/384a5cab247598fce55e3c100dce7605/Logo_red.png","author":"Cosmonaut Magazine","episode_count":338,"summary":"Cosmopod is the official podcast of Cosmonaut Magazine, a project dedicated to expanding the project of scientific socialism in the 21st Century. In our feed we have a combination of podcast episodes and audio articles from our website.","last_synced_at":null,"page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/cosmopod-533620"},"episode":{"title":"Communism = Soviets + Electrification: The Electric Grid","slug":"communism-soviets-electrification-the-electric-grid","published_at":"2026-04-09T12:02:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/cosmopod-533620/communism-soviets-electrification-the-electric-grid","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/cosmopod-533620","url":"https://cosmopod.libsyn.com/communism-soviets-electrification-the-electric-grid","audio_url":"https://traffic.libsyn.com/secure/cosmopod/energy.mp3?dest-id=1365587","summary":"Matt and Rudy join RK to discuss several facets of the electric grid. We talk about the USSR's and China's attempts at electrification, how a modern grid looks like, the current US grid and its governing authorities, and a discussion on possible futures for electricity. References: RK's thoughts con rural cooperatives: https://jnanayuddha.wordpress.com/2022/08/16/reflections-on-rural-electric-cooperatives-and-socialist-organizing/ Matt T. Huber & Fred Stafford's articles: Socialist Politics and the Electricity Grid, The Utility of Utilities and Won't Somebody Please Think of the Grid? Further recommendations, National: The Grid: The Fraying Wires Between Americans and Our Energy Future by Gretchen Bakke, 2016 Short Circuiting Policy: Interest Groups and the Battle Over Clean Energy and Climate Policy in the American States by Leah Stokes, 2020 California Burning: The Fall of Pacific Gas & Electric, and What It Means for America's Power Grid by Katherine Blunt, 2022 The Price is Wrong: Why Capitalism Won't Save the Planet by Brett Christophers, 2024 International: The Low-Carbon Contradiction: Energy Transition, Geopolitics, and the Infrastructural State in Cuba by Gustav Cederlof, 2023 Recharging China in War and Revolution, 1882-1955 by Ying Jia Tan, 2021 Sinews of Power: The Politics of the State Grid Corporation of China by Yi-chong Xu, 2017 Electrifying India: Regional Political Economies of Development by Sunila S. Kale, 2014 The Electrification of Russia, 1880-1926 by Jonathan Coopersmith, 1992 Electrical Palestine: Capitalism and Technology From Empire to Nation by Fredrik Meiton, 2019","meta_description":"Matt and Rudy join RK to discuss several facets of the electric grid. We talk about the USSR's and China's attempts at electrification, how a modern grid…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":5807,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/cosmopod-533620/episodes/communism-soviets-electrification-the-electric-grid/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/cosmopod-533620/communism-soviets-electrification-the-electric-grid.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}