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May 05, 2020 Coronavirus in Scandinavia; Southern Politics
Michael Seltzer is a cultural anthropologist and professor emeritus at Oslo University in Norway. There is a sharp contrast in dealing with the coronavirus pandemic between Norway, Finland, and Denmark, where isolation and quarantine are in effect, as compared to Sweden, where the economy is open, and the death rate is much higher. Mike says learning from the experience of Scandinavia is instructive for the United States as some states open for business, while others stay locked down. Mike looks at the history and politics behind these different approaches.
Michael Goldfield discusses his new book, The Southern Key: Class Race & Radicalism in the 1930s and 1940s. He argues that the political economic evolution of the South has been the key to determining the peculiar nature of American politics. Today the South is the center of reaction, leading the fight against choice, women and LGBTQ rights, the right to unionize — and even in the fight against the lockdown and quarantine necessary to halt the spread of coronavirus. It didn’t have to be this way and Goldfield holds that the experience (and failure) of organizing the working class in the South explains the origins of the current state of the United States and the world; and that the defeats from that time closed off the possibilities for meaningful class and anti-racist politics — as well as for a successful labor movement for decades to come.

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58 min
May 05, 2020 Coronavirus in Scandinavia; Southern Politics
Michael Seltzer (https://marxandphilosophy.org.uk/reviewer/17641_mike-seltzer/) is a cultural anthropologist and professor emeritus at Oslo University in Norway. There is a sharp contrast in dealing with the coronavirus pandemic between Norway, Finland, and Denmark, where isolation and quarantine are in effect, as compared to Sweden, where the economy is open, and the death rate is much higher. Mike says learning from the experience of Scandinavia is instructive for the United States as some states open for business, while others stay locked down. Mike looks at the history and politics behind these different approaches.
Michael Goldfield (https://clasprofiles.wayne.edu/profile/aa2182) discusses his new book, The Southern Key: Class Race & Radicalism in the 1930s and 1940s. He argues that the political economic evolution of the South has been the key to determining the peculiar nature of American politics. Today the South is the center of reaction, leading the fight against choice, women and LGBTQ rights, the right to unionize — and even in the fight against the lockdown and quarantine necessary to halt the spread of coronavirus. It didn’t have to be this way and Goldfield holds that the experience (and failure) of organizing the working class in the South explains the origins of the current state of the United States and the world; and that the defeats from that time closed off the possibilities for meaningful class and anti-racist politics — as well as for a successful labor movement for decades to come.
58 min
May 04, 2020 The Vast Majority: The Romance of American Communism with Alyssa Battistoni, Sean Estelle and Meagan Day
No book better captures what it's like to be a socialist who has jumped headlong into the fight for a better world than Vivian Gornick's The Romance of American Communism. Thankfully, Verso has reissued it after the book was out of print for decades. Micah Uetricht talks to Alyssa Battistoni, Sean Estelle, and Meagan Day about it.You can buy Romance from Verso here: https://www.versobooks.com/books/3110-the-romance-of-american-communismRead Alyssa's review here: https://www.dissentmagazine.org/article/bad-romanceBuy Bigger than Bernie for just $12.95 here: https://jacobinmag.com/store/product/69
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1 hr 7 min
May 04, 2020 The Vast Majority: The Romance of American Communism with Alyssa Battistoni, Sean Estelle and Meagan Day
No book better captures what it's like to be a socialist who has jumped headlong into the fight for a better world than Vivian Gornick's The Romance of American Communism. Thankfully, Verso has reissued it after the book was out of print for decades. Micah Uetricht talks to Alyssa Battistoni, Sean Estelle, and Meagan Day about it.
You can buy Romance from Verso here: https://www.versobooks.com/books/3110-the-romance-of-american-communism
Read Alyssa's review here: https://www.dissentmagazine.org/article/bad-romance
Buy Bigger than Bernie for just $12.95 here: https://jacobinmag.com/store/product/69
1 hr 7 min
May 01, 2020 Dig: Don't Blame Robots with Aaron Benanav
Dan interviews Aaron Benanav, who argues that the problem isn't that robots are stealing our jobs but rather that capitalist growth is finding its limits and making jobs worse.
Read "Automation and the Future of Work" in New Left Review. Parts one and two.
Please support this podcast at Patreon.com/TheDig.

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2 hr 9 min
May 01, 2020 Dig: Don't Blame Robots with Aaron Benanav
Dan interviews Aaron Benanav, who argues that the problem isn't that robots are stealing our jobs but rather that capitalist growth is finding its limits and making jobs worse.
Read "Automation and the Future of Work" in New Left Review. Parts one (https://newleftreview.org/issues/II119/articles/aaron-benanav-automation-and-the-future-of-work-1) and two (https://newleftreview.org/issues/II120/articles/aaron-benanav-automation-and-the-future-of-work-2).
Please support this podcast at Patreon.com/TheDig (Patreon.com/TheDig).
2 hr 9 min
April 27, 2020 Casualties of History: "God sent Meat into the World for us Poor as well as Rich"
We cover chapters three and four—"Satan's Strongholds" and "The Free-Born Englishman." With guest John Bohstedt (author of The Politics of Provisions: Food Riots, Moral Economy, and Market Transition in England, 1550-1850) we discuss the history and logic of riots in early modern England: why did riots occur so frequently? What did they mean? And how did they relate to the widely held ideas about English liberties, which both contributed to and inhibited the development of popular radicalism?
Secondary Readings:
John Bohstedt, Riots and Community Politics in England and Wales, 1790–1810 (https://www.google.com/books/edition/Reflections_on_the_Revolution_in_France/kFpaAAAAMAAJ?hl=en&gbpv=0).
John Bohstedt, The Politics of Provisions: Food Riots, Moral Economy, and Market Transition in England, 1550–1850.
Edmund Burke, Reflections on the Revolution in France (https://www.google.com/books/edition/Reflections_on_the_Revolution_in_France/kFpaAAAAMAAJ?hl=en&gbpv=0).
Douglas Hay, Peter Linebaugh, John G. Rule, E.P. Thompson, and Cal Winslow, Albion's Fatal Tree: Crime and Society in Eighteenth-Century England (https://www.versobooks.com/books/979-albion-s-fatal-tree).
Thomas Paine, The Rights of Man: Being an Answer to Mr. Burke's Attack on the French Revolution (https://www.google.com/books/edition/Rights_of_Man/9FkJAAAAQAAJ?hl=en&gbpv=0).
George Rudé, The Crowd in History: A Study of Popular Disturbances in France and England, 1730–1848 (https://books.google.com/books/about/The_Crowd_in_History.html?id=sUV9PwAACAAJ&source=kp_book_description).
Charles Tilly, "Collective Violence in European Perspective (https://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/handle/2027.42/50953/178.pdf)."
E.P. Thompson, "The Moral Economy of the English Crowd in the Eighteenth Century (https://d.docs.live.net/bda5add94f91ae77/Documents/The%20Moral%20Economy%20of%20the%20English%20Crowd%20in%20the%20Eighteenth%20Century).”
E.P. Thompson, Whigs and Hunters: The Origins of the Black Act (https://books.google.com/books/about/Whigs_and_Hunters.html?id=eKRZAAAAYAAJ).
1 hr 9 min
April 24, 2020 The Vast Majority: Bernie's Campaign Strategy Wasn't the Problem with Hadas Thier and Paul Heideman
There are too many bad takes out there about the end of the Bernie Sanders campaign. Thankfully, Hadas Thier and Paul Heideman wrote one that is good: "Bernie's Campaign Strategy Wasn't the Problem."Read it here: https://jacobinmag.com/2020/04/bernie-sanders-campaign-strategy-democratic-party-biden-trumpFind Hadas's book here: https://www.haymarketbooks.org/books/1481-a-people-s-guide-to-capitalismAnd Paul's book here: https://www.haymarketbooks.org/books/946-class-struggle-and-the-color-lineAnd you can still get Micah Uetricht and Meagan Day's 'Bigger Than Bernie' for only $12.95 from Jacobin: https://jacobinmag.com/store/product/69
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48 min
April 24, 2020 The Vast Majority: Bernie's Campaign Strategy Wasn't the Problem with Hadas Thier and Paul Heideman
There are too many bad takes out there about the end of the Bernie Sanders campaign. Thankfully, Hadas Thier and Paul Heideman wrote one that is good: "Bernie's Campaign Strategy Wasn't the Problem."
Read it here: https://jacobinmag.com/2020/04/bernie-sanders-campaign-strategy-democratic-party-biden-trump
Find Hadas's book here: https://www.haymarketbooks.org/books/1481-a-people-s-guide-to-capitalism
And Paul's book here: https://www.haymarketbooks.org/books/946-class-struggle-and-the-color-line
And you can still get Micah Uetricht and Meagan Day's 'Bigger Than Bernie' for only $12.95 from Jacobin: https://jacobinmag.com/store/product/69
48 min
April 24, 2020 Behind the News: Vijay Prashad, Meagan Day, and Micah Uetricht
Vijay Prashad on China (and Sinophobia), Kerala, and the crucial importance of social organization. Then, Meagan Day and Micah Uetricht, authors of Bigger than Bernie, on Bernie Sanders, socialism, electoralism, and where it all goes from here.
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54 min

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