Dig: Down the Rabbit Hole w/ Naomi Klein
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🗓️ 18 October 2024
⏱️ 101 minutes
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Featuring Naomi Klein on how the pandemic turbocharged a far-right conspiracist politics that’s sweeping into power. This strange new world, however, is a product of an old contradiction: the need to disavow and deny a long history and awful present; the inability to make sense of the extreme violence and oppression that makes everyday Western capitalist society possible.
We discuss Klein’s book Doppelganger: A Trip into the Mirror World and her Guardian essay "How Israel has made trauma a weapon of war": theguardian.com/us-news/ng-interactive/2024/oct/05/israel-gaza-october-7-memorials
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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 and by haymarket books which has loads of great left-wing titles perfect for dig listeners like you. |
| 0:11.0 | One that you might like is Rosa Luxembourg, The Incendiary Spark by Michael |
| 0:16.8 | Lavey. Vibrant, insightful, and wide-ranging, renowned Marxist scholar Michael Lave Levine's essays about Rosa Luxembourg |
| 0:25.0 | illuminate the life and thought of a heroic tough-minded martyr. |
| 0:29.0 | Levine follows Luxembourg in blending diverse intellectual disciplines, philosophy, history, political science, |
| 0:36.1 | sociology, anthropology, and economics to make sense of global realities in her time and our own. |
| 0:43.0 | In accessible and stimulating prose, |
| 0:45.2 | Lavee explores Luxembourg's many political and theoretical contributions, |
| 0:49.6 | as well as her links to revolutionaries, |
| 0:51.8 | including Marx, Lenin, Gramsci, Lukash, Mariettii, Anne Trotsky. |
| 0:57.8 | Through Lave's expansive engagement with Luxembourg's political trajectory and influence, were able to see her wrestle with political problems that remain relevant today. |
| 1:07.0 | Find Rosa Luxembourg, the incendiary Spark at haymarketbooks.org, where all paperback books are 20% off every day. Welcome to the Dig, a podcast from Jacobin magazine. My name is Daniel |
| 1:29.6 | Denver and I'm broadcasting from Providence, Rhode Island. |
| 1:34.0 | I was first planning to interview Naomi Klein about her wonderful book Doppelganger in late October |
| 1:39.0 | 2023. |
| 1:40.5 | We had to delay for a year. I urgently wanted to share with you histories of Western imperialism and colonialism in the Middle East and the revolutionary struggles that rose up against it all. These critical histories that American imperialist and |
| 1:54.8 | Zionist public discourse render invisible. Returning to Doppelganger now, it's clear to |
| 2:00.8 | me that this book, beautifully written, is the perfectly weird map for a territory |
| 2:06.6 | that only grows stranger by the day. |
| 2:09.7 | Naomi examines how the pandemic turbocharged a far-right conspiracist politics that's sweeping |
| 2:15.7 | into power everywhere, but then reminds us that the politics of this strange new world is the |
| 2:21.0 | product of an old contradiction. |
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