This episode of The Dig is brought to you by our supporters on Patreon and by Verso Books, which has loads of great left-wing titles, perfect for dig listeners like you.

One that you might like is, how will capitalism end essays on a failing system by

Wolfgang Streak which is out now in paperback the provocative political thinker asks if it will be with a bang or a whimper.

After years of ill health, capitalism is now in a critical condition.

Growth has given way to stagnation.

Inequality is leading to instability.

And confidence in the money economy has all but evaporated.

In how will capitalism end, the acclaimed analyst of contemporary politics and economics, Wolfgang Streak,

argues that the world is about to change.

The marriage between democracy and capitalism, ill-suited partners brought together in the shadow of World War II, is coming to an end.

The regulatory institutions that once restrained the financial sector's excesses have collapsed.

And after the final victory of capitalism at the end of the Cold War,

there is no political agency capable of rolling back the liberalization of the markets.

O'Lagarchic rule, a shrinking public sphere,

institutional corruption, and international anarchy, and no cure to these ills is at hand.

How will capitalism end?

Essays on a failing system by Wolfgang Streak, out now in paperback from Verso Books.

Welcome to the dig, a podcast from Jacobin magazine. My name is Daniel Denver and I'm broadcasting from Providence, Rhode Island. I'm back from my holiday

extra-Gansa of finally finishing the first draft of my book and drunkenly

dancing on two street in the freezing cold, so here comes your first diglet of the new year.

And we're going to talk about that trump book. At N-plus 1, Patrick Blanchfield makes the

case that Fire and Fury is not, as some might think, a bunch

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