The Dig: A Post-Janus Plan for Labor

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🗓️ 25 July 2018

⏱️ 72 minutes

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Summary

Janus was an entirely expected and atrocious decision. The conservative business interests that successfully obliterated private sector unions hope it will do the same to their public sector counterparts. Chris Maisano, a contributing editor at Jacobin, argues that labor has no choice but to return to its militant roots if it hopes to survive. In other words, to survive, labor has to fight for a lot more than mere survival.

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0:00.0	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.
0:12.0	One that you might like is mistaken identity, race and class in
0:16.1	the age of Trump by Assad-Hater. Whether class or race is the more important factor in
0:22.2	modern politics is a question right at the
0:25.0	heart of recent histories most contentious debates. Among groups who should
0:29.8	readily find common ground there is little agreement. To escape this deadlock, Assad
0:35.4	Hader turns to the rich legacies of the Black Freedom Struggle. Drawing on the
0:40.4	words and deeds of Black Revolutionary theorists, he argues that identity
0:45.2	politics, as we have come to know it, is not synonymous with anti-racism, but instead amounts
0:51.3	to the neutralization of its movements.
0:54.0	It marks retreat from the crucial passage of identity to solidarity,
0:58.0	and from individual recognition to the collective struggle
1:02.0	against an oppressive social structure.
1:04.0	Weaving together autobiographical reflection, historical analysis, and theoretical exegesis,
1:10.0	mistaken identity is a passionate call for a new practice of politics beyond
1:15.9	color-blind chauvinism and the ideology of race. And to make this add into a bit of
1:21.5	an advertorial I'd like to point out that I just finished the book.
1:25.0	It's really stellar, and I'll be interviewing Assad shortly.
1:29.0	Mistaken identity, Racing Class in the Age of Trump by Assad Hater.
1:34.0	Out now from Verso Books.
1:37.0	Welcome to the dig a podcast from Jacobin magazine. My name is Daniel Denver and
1:49.3	I'm broadcasting from Providence, Rhode Island. The conservative majority on the US Supreme
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