Dig: Death and Life Under Capitalism w/ Sarah Jaffe
Jacobin Radio
Jacobin
4.7 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 16 August 2025
⏱️ 100 minutes
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Summary
Featuring Sarah Jaffe on her book From the Ashes: Grief and Revolution in a World on Fire. The ordinary death of a loved one under a capitalist order that routinely forbids sufficient time off to mourn. Workplace injuries, deindustrialization, police violence, pandemic, genocide, social murder, and how we can make sense of loss through struggle.
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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 |
| 0:05.1 | and by Pluto Press, which has loads of great left-wing titles, perfect for dig listeners like you. |
| 0:12.3 | One that you might like is fascist yoga, grifters, occultists, white supremacists, and the New Order in Wellness by Stuart Holm. |
| 0:22.0 | The world of yoga is full of grifters, occultists, and white supremacists, all out to recruit |
| 0:28.3 | via the medium of exercise, from cult leaders to brainwashed followers, TV celebrities, and fake |
| 0:35.6 | gurus. The story of yoga has involved some of the strangest currents of humanity. |
| 0:43.6 | Stuart Holm is a legend of counterculture, bringing his sardonic wit to this highly anticipated book. |
| 0:51.5 | Dig listeners can get 50% off their first order of this or any book from |
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| 1:18.7 | Welcome to The Dig, a podcast from Jacobin Magazine. My name is Daniel Denver, and I'm broadcasting from Providence, Rhode Island. Today, I'm interviewing Sarah Jaffe about her latest book, |
| 1:26.4 | From the Ashes, Grief and Revolution in a World on Fire. |
| 1:31.1 | The book's about loss and grief, from her father's own death to the ongoing genocide in Gaza and police murder of black Americans to post-industrial mourning for the disappearance of jobs, ways of life, and communities. But before we get this |
| 1:47.5 | started, this podcast is by and large a listener-supported operation. And the place where listeners |
| 1:54.4 | support us with a contribution is at patreon.com slash the dig. I'm so grateful that this funding model works because when I first started the podcast |
| 2:05.8 | after Trump's 2016 victory, I had no idea what I was doing. |
| 2:11.1 | And certainly no clue that a bunch of people would listen to these interviews. |
| 2:15.4 | And really, really no expectation that so many |
| 2:20.7 | listeners would come through and with their contributions, allow me to do this for a living and to pay |
| 2:27.7 | all the people who help out on the show. And for that, I'm really, really sincerely grateful. |
| 2:34.1 | It's a model that allows us to put out every |
| 2:37.0 | episode for free with no paywall. And that's really important to us because the dig is above all |
| 2:43.9 | else a political education project. We want everyone to listen to every episode, whether or not they pay. |
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