The Dig: The Right to Have Rights Part II

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🗓️ 4 May 2018

⏱️ 59 minutes

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Summary

This is part two of Dan's interview on Hannah Arendt's notion of "the right to have rights." This episode covers a lot, including why we must fight not only to expand the democratic political community but also to deepen its power—all at a time when the nativist right is exploiting the many crises unleashed by neoliberalism and empire to erect walls and punish scapegoats. One upshot is that zombie liberalism can't be the answer, because it is precisely the liberal order that is a key source of the problem.

Dan’s guests today, Stephanie DeGooyer and Astra Taylor, just wrote a book about this for Verso, called the The Right to Have Rights. This is part 2. It’s strongly suggested that you listen to part 1 first.

Also: check out and support the soon-to-be-made documentary Socialism: An American Story https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/socialismmovie/socialism-an-american-story

Thanks to Verso Books. Check out Police: A Field Guide by David Correia and Tyler Wall versobooks.com/books/2530-police. And Work: The Last 1,000 Years by Andrea Komlosy versobooks.com/books/2608-work. And please make a contribution to support the long-run viability of this show at Patreon.com/TheDig

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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 Police, a field guide by David
0:16.4	Quarea and Tyler Wall. It doesn't take firsthand experience to learn the meaning of pain
0:21.6	compliance or rough ride.
0:24.0	Police, a field guide, is an illustrated handbook
0:28.0	to the methods, mythologies, and history
0:31.0	that animate today's police. It is a survival manual for
0:35.4	encounters with cops and police logic. Whether it arrives in the shape of
0:39.9	officer friendly, tasers, curfews, noncompliance, or reformist
0:46.0	discourses about so-called bad apples. In a series of short chapters, each
0:51.6	focusing on a single term, such as the beat, order, badge, throw down
0:56.2	weapon, and much more, authors David Correa and Tyler Wall present a guide that reinvents and demystifies the language of policing
1:06.1	in order to better prepare activists and anyone with an open mind on one of the key issues
1:11.8	of our time, police brutality.
1:15.0	In doing so, they begin to chart a future free of this violence and of police.
1:21.0	Police, a field guide by David Correa and Tyler Wall.
1:25.0	Out now from Jacobin magazine. My name is Daniel
1:40.6	Denver and I'm broadcasting from Providence, Rhode Island. This is part
1:46.0	two of my interview on Hannah Arent's notion of the Right to Have Rights. This episode
1:51.9	covers a lot including why we must fight not only to expand
1:56.1	the democratic political community so that it includes people who are currently
2:00.4	excluded like immigrants and ex-offenders, but also to deepen that political
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