The Dig: the State of Labor with Sarah Jaffe and Gabriel Winant

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🗓️ 14 March 2018

⏱️ 77 minutes

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In West Virginia, a focal point of Trump-era liberal armchair ethnography, teachers have won a historic state-wide strike just as the Supreme Court is poised to rule in Janus, a case that will mark the culmination of a long right-wing effort to gut public sector unions. It's a scary time — but maybe, just maybe, also an exciting one. Dan’s guests today are Sarah Jaffe, Nation Institute fellow and author of Necessary Trouble: Americans in Revolt, and labor historian Gabriel Winant. Thanks to our supporters at Verso Books. Check out The Right to Have Rights by Stephanie DeGooyer, Alastair Hunt, Lida Maxwell, Samuel Moyn and Astra Taylor versobooks.com/books/2424-the-right-to-have-rights and Greece and the Reinvention of Politics by Alain Badiou versobooks.com/books/2560-greece-and-the-reinvention-of-politics. And support this podcast with $ 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 Greece and the reinvention of
0:15.1	politics by Alan Badu translated by David Broder. In this book one of the world's
0:22.3	leading radical philosophers analyzes the failure of the
0:25.8	Sariza experience in Greece.
0:28.8	Over the last six years, Greece has provided the world with an open-air political lesson.
0:33.0	The country's deep economic and social crisis has exposed the fundamental
0:38.0	contradictions of the European Union, and indeed the capitalist world as a whole.
0:42.0	It has been a test case for movement. and indeed the capitalist world as a whole.
0:43.3	It has been a test case for movements seeking to put an end to the authoritarian anarchy of
0:48.6	neoliberal capitalism.
0:51.0	The Greek resistance to EU institutions and financial market hegemony offered a beacon of hope.
0:57.0	Yet the movementist politics of 2011 could not build anything lasting, and Siriz's efforts as a party of government
1:04.9	soon led to impasse. For Alambadu, it is not enough to mourn this defeat.
1:10.5	We must understand why such a vigorous opposition could fail.
1:15.0	Greece and the reinvention of politics argues that an opposition of real consequence
1:20.0	must revive the communist hypothesis, the vision of an alternative state structure.
1:26.0	The orienting maxims that this hypothesis provides light the way for effective political action.
1:34.5	Written in the storm of the crisis, the interventions collected in this book offer a path out
1:39.7	of our contemporary powerlessness.
1:42.4	Greece and the reinvention of politics by Alan Badu, out podcast from Jacobin magazine. My name is Daniel Denver and I'm
2:02.2	broadcasting from Providence, Rhode Island.
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