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Welcome to The Dig, a podcast from Jacobin magazine.

My name is Daniel Denver, and I'm broadcasting from Providence, Rhode Island.

Last week, we published an introduction to Stuart Hall's Marxism, and we did so in an unusual format, unusual for the dig, a narrative essay put together by our team at the dig, led by

Ben Mayby, interspersed with clips of Michael Denning's analysis and passages from Hall's work,

closing with some moving words from Hall himself.

This episode is my interview with Michael Denning on,

policing the crisis, mugging the state and law and order.

A 1978 book collectively authored by Hall and his colleagues

at the Center for Contemporary Cultural Studies

at the University of Birmingham. That's Stuart Hall, Chas Critcher, Tony Jefferson, John

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