You definitely know about the dig since you're listening to this podcast and you probably

know about Jacobin, which helps put out the dig, but you might not know about Catalyst,

a journal of theory and strategy. Capitalism is once again up for debate. Catalyst,

a journal of theory and strategy, is a scholarly journal produced by Jacobin Foundation that

aims to do everything it can to promote and deepen this conversation. Its focus is as the

title suggests to develop a theory and strategy with capitalism as its target, both in the north

and in the global south. That's an ambitious agenda, but this is a time for thinking big.

You can check out Catalyst's great essays, including contributions from scholars like Mike Davis

and subscribe and print for just $20 for an entire year by going to bit.ly slash dig Catalyst.

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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. It's incredible and makes me feel incredibly old that

Occupy Wall Street took off 10 years ago. It happened at a moment when no one thought that

such a thing was possible. The left, after all, had been in a state of nearer relevancy for decades.

The anti-globalization movement that began in the late 90s and the Iraq War movement had boomed

and then fizzled. And even during those brief booms, the left's assumed posture and ambition

was to dissent and oppose. The idea that the point is to win power and govern to transform society

such a commonplace premise on the left today was not on the table. It was almost unimaginable.

Occupy generated a ton of debating criticism on the left at the time and also in the years after.

But looking back a decade, it's impossible to imagine the renewed US left that we have today

coming into existence without Occupy and the cycle of social movements that Occupy kicked off.

And then, of course, the Bernie campaigns which spoke Occupy's language of class war against the 1%.

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