The Dig: Chinese Class Conflict with Jenny Chan

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🗓️ 10 April 2019

⏱️ 117 minutes

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Summary

In the US, China is often viewed at best as a nefarious and enigmatic rival and at worst as a civilizational enemy. But these stories of national rivalry that permeate both major parties and the mainstream media function as a mystification, shrouding the global supply chain that connects capitalist exploitation from East to West. When we cut through the noise, a rather different picture emerges: China is home to a massive portion of the world's working-class, a class that is struggling against the combined forces of state and global capital for dignified lives. And these struggles, contrary to conventional wisdom, are deeply connected, rather than opposed to, worker struggles in the West. Dan interviews sociologist Jenny Chan on China's class conflict and labor movement.

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0:00.0	This episode of the Dig is brought to you by our listeners who support us at patreon.com and by VersoBooks which has loads of great left-wing titles
0:10.7	perfect for Dig listeners like you.
0:13.0	One that you might like is Eugene V. Debs, a graphic biography by Paul Buell, Steve Max, and
0:21.3	Dave Nance, and illustrated by Noah Skiver.
0:25.4	Dynamic and beloved American radical, labor leader, and socialist Eugene Victor Debs
0:32.3	led the Socialist Party to federal and state office across the
0:36.4	United States by the 1920s. Imprisoned for speaking out against World War I
0:41.6	Debs ran for president from prison on the Socialist
0:44.9	Party ticket, receiving over 1 million votes.
0:49.2	Debs life is a story of labor battles in industrializing America of a fighting socialist politics
0:56.4	grown directly out of the Midwest Heartland and of a distinctly American vision of socialism.
1:03.0	Mike Davis praised the book like so.
1:06.0	As socialists of Debzera might say,
1:09.0	here's the ammunition, in addition to being a delightful biography of the railroad man from Terahot,
1:15.0	this is a splendid genealogy of the struggles and ideas that energize today's socialist revival
1:21.0	by an extra copy and turn on a friend or workmate.
1:26.1	Eugene V. Debs, a graphic biography, by Paul Buell, Steve Max, and Dave Nance, and illustrated by Noah Van Skyver.
1:35.0	Out now from Jacobin magazine. My name is Daniel Denver and
1:51.8	I'm temporarily broadcasting from Santiago de Chile.
1:57.0	I started the dig a little over two years ago and I began with what I knew best.
2:02.0	U.S. history and politics, criminal justice, immigration, the border.
2:07.0	And then I moved on to what I used to know really well, a decade ago when I was just getting started as a journalist, which was Latin America.
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