This episode of The Dig is brought to you by our supporters on patreon.com and by Verso Books,

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a toxic ideology of extreme competition and individualism

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Both democracy and economic life can be radically reorganized from the bottom up,

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Out of the wreckage, a new politics for an age of crisis

by George Monbiah.

Out now from Verso Books.

Music Marnbia. Out now from Verso Books. Welcome to The Dig, a podcast from Jacobin Magazine. My name is Daniel Denver, and I'm broadcasting from, you guessed it, Providence, Rhode Island.

This is the second week in a row when I have two separate guests for the diglet.

A lot is happening. I had two interviews scheduled, and I pulled listeners who overwhelmingly

wanted me to post them side by side as separate

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