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respectively. Welcome to the Dig, a podcast from Jacobin magazine. My name is Daniel Denver,

and a broadcasting from Providence, Rhode Island. But today's episode was not recorded here.

I had a really wonderful and busy time at last week's Socialism 2022 conference in Chicago,

where roughly 1,400 Socialists gathered for conversations on every subject imaginable.

This episode is my live and quite lively interview with Femi-Taiwo, Robyn DG Kelly,

and Ruth Wilson Gilmore, which took place this past Sunday. It was really something to have

three of my favorite radical intellectuals, all of whom I've interviewed here on the show before

together for one big conversation. It was also really incredibly nice to meet so many listeners

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