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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. What is going on with capitalism? Is it even still capitalism?

The power of tech and finance alongside the growing sense that the system is ruled more by brazen

predation than by good old-fashioned labor exploitation has thinkers from the Marxist left all the

way to the neoliberal and even neo-reactionary right convinced that we've left capitalism entirely

and entered neo-futalism. My guest today is Yevgeny Morosov and he argues that this bleak period

that we're living through is in fact still a thoroughly capitalist one. We're discussing his

new left review essay, Critique of Technofutal Reason, and I'll link to that essay in the show notes.

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