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Welcome to The Dig, a podcast from Jacobin Magazine. My name is Daniel Denver and a broadcasting from Providence,

Rhode Island. This week, my guest is the scholar, Sherees Burdenstelli, and we're talking about

some intertwined issues that she works on. Racial capitalism, the history of black leftism,

and how the U.S. state combined anti-communism and anti-black racism

to repress the black left. We cover a lot of ground in this interview because Burdon Stelly

covers a whole lot of ground in her work. And I will link to some of that work that I read

to prepare for this interview in the show notes. I highly recommend that you give it a read. Before we get started, though, this show is listener-supported,

and our listeners support us at patreon.com slash the dig. Patreon, for those of you who don't know,

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