This episode of the Dig is brought to you by our supporters on Patreon and by Verso Books which has loads of great left-wing titles perfect for dig listeners like you.

One that you might like is the amateur, the pleasures of doing what you love, by Andy

Merrifield, out now in paperback.

We have lost our amateur spirit and need to rediscover the radical and liberating pleasure of doing things we love.

In the amateur, thinker Andy Merrifield shows us how the many spheres of our lives, work, knowledge, home, politics, have fallen

into the hands of box tickers, bean counters, and pedants.

In response, he corrals a team of independent thinkers, wayward poets, dabblers and square pegs, who challenge

accepted wisdom.

Such figures as Charles Bodalaire, Theodore Dosteevsky, Edward Saeed, Guy de Board,

Hannah Arendt, and Jane Jacobs show us the way.

As we will see, the amateur takes risks, thinks the unthinkable, seeks independence, and changes the world.

The amateur is a passionate manifesto for the liberated life, one that questions authority and reclaims the iconoclast as a radical

hero of our times.

The amateur, the pleasures of doing what you love by Andy Merrifield, out now in podcast from Jacobin magazine. My name is Daniel Denver and

I'm broadcasting from Providence, Rhode Island.

Thanks to Occupy Black Lives Matter, the Bernie campaign, and many other struggles.

We are starting to win the battle of ideas.

The neoliberal establishments legislation We are starting to win the battle of ideas.

The neoliberal establishment's legitimacy has collapsed.

And the right is struggling to make its case,

thanks to the fact that it must tailor an ever more right-wing agenda to a segment of aging whites that they depend

upon for votes, rendering them anethymah to an emerging majority.

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