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Planetary Mine, Territories of Extraction Under Late Capitalism, by Martin Arboleda.

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Thank you. now from Verso Books. Welcome to The Dig, a podcast from Jacobin Magazine.

My name is Daniel Denver, and I'm once again broadcasting from Providence, Rhode Island, though in a different studio

because, of course, COVID-related complications.

The organizing we do and the decisions we make now will in hindsight be incredibly important.

The test of a movement is precisely how you respond to difficult moments and to crises.

And as I've said in recent days, this is particularly true for a movement like ours,

which has accomplished so much in recent years building a left politics in the United States

that would have been

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