The Dig: Petro-Capitalism with Timothy Mitchell Part I
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🗓️ 11 April 2018
⏱️ 75 minutes
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Summary
Historian and political theorist Timothy Mitchell joins Dan for the first of a two-part interview on his book Carbon Democracy: Political Power in the Age of Oil, published in 2011 by Verso. In this first episode, we talk about how the rise of coal made both industrial capitalism and newly powerful worker resistance possible; and how the shift to oil then facilitated the persistence of imperialism in a decolonizing world while thwarting worker organizing. On the next show, we'll discuss a lot more, including how oil companies and Western governments made autocratic governments and conservative Islamists key partners in creating the very global order that we now find in such profound crisis. Thanks to Verso Books. Check out The End of Policing by Alex S. Vitale versobooks.com/books/2426-the-end-of-policing and Police: A Field Guide by David Correia and Tyler Wall versobooks.com/books/2530-police. And support this podcast with $ at patreon.com/TheDig, where you can also check out the first edition of our new weekly newsletter.
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| 0:00.0 | This episode of The Dig is brought to you by our supporters on Patreon.com |
| 0:05.0 | and by Verso Books, which has loads of great left-wing titles, |
| 0:10.0 | perfect for dig listeners like you. |
| 0:13.0 | One new book that might be of interest is The End of Policing |
| 0:18.0 | by Alex Fatale. |
| 0:19.0 | Recent years have seen an explosion of protest against police brutality and repression. |
| 0:25.0 | The conversation about how to respond and improve policing has focused on |
| 0:30.0 | accountability, diversity, training, and community relations. |
| 0:35.0 | Unfortunately, these reforms will not produce results. |
| 0:39.0 | The core of the problem must be addressed, and that is the nature of modern policing itself. |
| 0:47.0 | Broken Windows practices, the militarization of law enforcement, and the dramatic expansion of the role of police have created a |
| 0:55.1 | mandate for officers that must be rolled back. This book shows how the expansion of |
| 1:01.2 | police authority is inconsistent with community |
| 1:04.0 | empowerment, social justice, and even public safety. |
| 1:07.8 | Alex Vatale demonstrates how law enforcement has come to exacerbate the very problems it is supposed to solve. |
| 1:17.0 | In contrast, there are places where the robust implementation of policing alternatives, such as legalization, |
| 1:25.2 | restorative justice, and harm reduction has led to reduction in crime, spending, and |
| 1:31.4 | injustice. |
| 1:33.5 | The best solution to bad policing may be an end to policing as we know it. |
| 1:40.1 | The end of policing by Alex Fatale |
| 1:43.1 | Out now from Jacobin magazine. My name is Daniel Denver and |
| 1:58.8 | I'm broadcasting from Providence, Rhode Island. Last week, I spoke to Aziz Rana about the lack of serious anti-imperialist politics |
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