The Dig: Naomi Klein and Mercedes Martínez on The Battle for Puerto Rico

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🗓️ 13 June 2018

⏱️ 54 minutes

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Summary

The US colony of Puerto Rico has been repeatedly shocked and Puerto Ricans are traumatized. That is precisely what successful shock doctrines like this one — which wants to remake the island into a utopia for rich Americans and crypto-bros and a dystopia for everyone else — depend upon.

This is also the subject of Naomi Klein's new book from Haymarket, The Battle For Paradise: Puerto Rico Takes on the Disaster Capitalists. Today, Klein returns to The Dig, and is joined by Mercedes Martínez, president of the Puerto Rican Teachers Federation.

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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,
0:06.1	which has loads of great left-wing titles, perfect for dig listeners like you.
0:12.4	One that you might like is A World to Win. dig listeners like you.
0:12.7	One that you might like is A World to Win, the Life and Works of Carl Marx, by Sven
0:17.9	Eric Liedman, and translated by Jeffrey and Skinner. In this essential new biography, the first to give
0:25.4	equal weight to both the work and life of Carl Marx, Sven Eric Ledman expertly
0:31.2	navigates the imposing complex personality of his subject
0:34.8	through the turbulent passages of global history. A world to win follows marks
0:40.0	through childhood and student days, a difficult and
0:43.1	sometimes tragic family life, his far-sided journalism,
0:47.6	and his enduring friendship and intellectual partnership
0:51.3	with Friedrich Ingalls.
0:53.0	Building on the work of previous biographers,
0:55.7	Leadman employs a commanding knowledge of the 19th century
0:59.0	to create a definitive portrait of Marx
1:01.4	and his vast contribution to the way the world understands itself.
1:06.1	He shines a light on Marx influences, explains his political and intellectual interventions, and builds on the legacy of his thought. and
1:13.0	builds on the legacy of his thought.
1:15.0	Leadman shows how Marx's masterpiece,
1:18.0	capital, illuminates the essential logic of a system
1:22.0	that drives dizzying wealth, grinding power. the World To Win, The Life and Works of Karl Marx by Sven Ehrich Ledman.
1:35.0	Out now from Jacobin magazine. My name is Daniel Denver and
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