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Welcome to the Dig, a podcast from Jacobin magazine. My name is Daniel Denver and I'm broadcasting

from Providence, Rhode Island. The fight to control land has been a central conflict

throughout human history. Those fights intensified and took on new forms with the rise of capitalism

and colonialism. Decolonization then became fundamentally a struggle over land.

Sparking what my guest today, historian Joe Gouldy, calls a long land war that defined the 20th

century. That land war decisively shaped the world we live in today, from the masses of peasants

displaced into untitled slums of expanding megacities to global north tenants organizing

against unchecked landlordism. And it will shape our future as well, a future in which climate

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