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The Dig

Emergent Terrain w/ Akbar, Winant, & Riofrancos

The Dig

Daniel Denvir

News, Politics

4.81.5K Ratings

🗓️ 24 August 2023

⏱️ 135 minutes

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Summary

Featuring Amna Akbar, Gabriel Winant, and Thea Riofrancos on the emerging terrain of struggle. Is American liberalism exhausted or revitalized? What are the successes and limits of the new US left electoral strategy? Is there a new anti-electoral mood amongst socialists? Why don't we have a powerful climate movement? What forces are making and remaking the American working class today? The second and final part of a very wide-ranging interview.

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0:00.0

This episode of The Dig is brought to you by our listeners who support us at patreon.com

0:04.4

and by Hey Market Books, which has loads of great left-wing titles, perfect for dig listeners

0:09.5

like you. One that you might like is reform, revolution, and opportunism, debates in the Second

0:15.6

International, 1900 to 1910, edited by Mike Taber. At its height, from 1889 to 1914,

0:23.5

the second socialist international represented the majority of organized workers in the world,

0:28.2

with the revolutionary goal of overthrowing capitalism. Its major accomplishments,

0:33.4

such as the eight-hour workday and International Women's Day, testify to its lasting influence

0:38.6

around the world. In this important collection of debates that congresses of the Second International,

0:44.4

reform, revolution, and opportunism, captures the international's vibrancy and gives a snapshot

0:50.7

of its strengths, weaknesses, and contradictions. As David McNally puts it, this book is a treasure

0:56.7

chest for every socialist seeking to understand the history of their movement. Bringing together

1:01.1

documents from 1900 to 1910, Mike Taber shows us how socialists, more than a century ago,

1:07.0

analyzed and debated key questions of their time. Find reform, revolution, and opportunism

1:12.9

at HeyMarketBooks.org, where readers in the US and UK receive free shipping on orders over

1:18.7

$25 and 20 pounds, respectively. Welcome to the Dig, a podcast from Jacobin magazine.

1:34.5

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

1:39.8

This is the second of my two-part interview with Amna Akbar, gay, blind, and ethereal frankos,

1:45.1

mapping out the broad contours of the present American conchuncher in all of its complexity and

1:50.8

overdetermination. The last installment was in significant part a close analysis of the past decade

1:56.4

plus a very recent history, tracing a cycle of struggle stretching from Occupy through the summer

2:03.0

of 2020 uprisings. If you haven't listened yet, I would definitely check out last week's part one

2:09.7

before listening to this. Today, we're getting into as much as we can on an impossibly elusive

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