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Dig: Mike Davis on This Moment

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🗓️ 13 November 2020

⏱️ 82 minutes

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Dan interviews Mike Davis on what the election reveals about this US political moment and the way forward for the Left.

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0:00.0

You definitely know about the dig since you're listening to this podcast and you probably know about Jacobin

0:06.9

which helps put out the dig but you might not know about catalyst a journal of Theory and Strategy. Capitalism is once again up for debate.

0:16.8

Cataly, a Journal of Theory and Strategy, is a scholarly journal produced by Jacobin Foundation that aims to do everything it can to promote and deepen this conversation.

0:28.0

Its focus is, as the title suggests, to develop a theory and strategy with capitalism as its target, both in the

0:35.9

north and in the global south. That's an ambitious agenda, but this is a time for

0:41.9

thinking big.

0:43.2

You can check out Catalysts' great essays, including contributions from scholars like Mike

0:47.7

Davis, and subscribe in print for just $20 for an entire year by going to bit dot Lee slash dig catalyst that's

0:59.0

BIT dot ly slash dig catalyst I T dot L Y slash Dig Catalyst.

1:07.0

Welcome to the Dig, a podcast from Jack up in magazine. My name is Daniel Denver and

1:19.6

a broadcasting from Providence, Rhode Island.

1:23.0

What do I do?

1:26.0

That is the question that Kornow West, by way of Dosteevsky,

1:31.0

posed and then offered some answers to in last week's interview.

1:37.2

For this week's episode, I asked Mike Davis the same, what happened and what then is to be done. Unsurprisingly Mike had a ton of

1:48.0

insight, but what I want to hammer home here is where Mike ends the interview.

1:54.8

We need to create left organizations of organizers.

1:59.8

Organizations that can sustain young leftists recently radicalized, particularly working-class

2:05.7

leftists, over the years to come. That's an issue that I want to explore in more

2:11.3

depth down the road, but for now, I'll leave it to Mike Davis.

2:16.0

Briefly, before we get started. Obviously, the dig only exists because our listeners, people just like you listening to me right now, support

2:28.0

us at patreon.com slash the dig. It's that simple.

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