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The Dig: What’s Left w/ Malcolm Harris

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🗓️ 29 November 2025

⏱️ 115 minutes

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Summary

Featuring Malcolm Harris on What’s Left: Three Paths Through the Planetary Crisis. An open-minded and anti-sectarian discussion about an ecumenical book that plots out three paths forward for the Left — arguing we must embrace all three simultaneously.

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This episode of The Dig is brought to you by our listeners who support us at patreon.com

0:05.1

and by Haymarket Books, which has loads of great left-wing titles, perfect for dig listeners like you.

0:12.9

One that you might like is Solidarity with Children, an essay Against Adult Supremacy by Madeline Lane McKinley.

0:23.8

We live in a world that is profoundly against children, evident in the genocide in Palestine, the blatant disregard for the lives of

0:31.0

migrant children, the fascist targeting of trans kids, and the climate catastrophe looming over the future of all children.

0:41.7

Blending personal and political reflection with cultural analysis, Lane McKinley

0:46.4

examines the history of childhood as a system of private property in capitalism,

0:52.0

showing how the idea of the child has been weaponized in the service

0:56.6

of white supremacy and empire. She argues for a politics of solidarity with children, one that

1:04.1

sees them as comrades in our struggle for a better future. Find solidarity with children at haymarketbooks.org, where all paperback

1:13.9

books are 20% off every day.

1:25.4

Welcome to The Dig, a podcast from Jacobin Magazine.

1:29.2

My name is Daniel Denver, and I'm broadcasting from Providence, Rhode Island.

1:35.0

Today's interview with Malcolm Harris is an ecumenical discussion about an ecumenical book

1:41.6

that plots out various paths forward for the left in the face of climate crisis

1:47.5

and escalating neoliberal and neo-colonial plunder, extraction, exploitation, and death.

1:56.2

We discuss the urgency and contradiction of three left strategies, market craft, public power,

2:04.9

and communism. These are all strategies that Malcolm explores in rich detail in his book,

2:12.1

What's Left, Three Paths Through the Planetary Crisis. The urgency of moving each of these strategies all at once also means various sorts of

2:24.2

competing left political currents must work together as part of a meta-strategic hegemonic

2:30.0

project. Left liberals, antitrusters, democratic socialists, Leninists, left communists,

2:38.0

and so on and so forth. Before we get this thing started, please contribute to the dig at

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