The Dig: Why Socialism Wins in Chicago
Jacobin Radio
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🗓️ 23 March 2019
⏱️ 65 minutes
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Summary
Four of the five candidates endorsed by the Chicago Democratic Socialists of America either won outright or advanced to the runoff election on April 2, leading to talk of a Socialist Caucus on the city council. And other progressive candidates throughout the city knocked off corporate-friendly incumbents. Dan passes the mic to guest host Micah Uetricht for an interview with United Working Families Executive Director Emma Tai and In These Times web editor Miles Kampf-Lassin on how years of grassroots organizing—and partnerships between labor and community groups and socialists—can produce a sea change in urban politics.
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| 0:00.0 | This episode of The Dig is brought to you by our listeners who support us at patreon.com and by Verso Books, which has loads of great left-wing titles, perfect for dig listeners like you. One that you might like is How Europe |
| 0:16.8 | underdeveloped Africa by Walter Rodney with a foreword by Angela Davis. |
| 0:21.7 | How Europe underdeveloped Africa is an ambitious |
| 0:25.6 | masterwork of political economy detailing the impact of slavery and |
| 0:30.0 | colonialism on the history of international capitalism. |
| 0:33.8 | In this classic book, Rodney makes the unflinching case |
| 0:37.8 | that African maldevelopment is not a natural feature |
| 0:41.5 | of geography, but a direct product of imperial extraction from the continent, |
| 0:47.2 | a practice that continues up into the present. |
| 0:50.4 | Meticulously researched, how Europe underdeveloped Africa remains a relevant study |
| 0:56.1 | for understanding the so-called great divergence between Africa and Europe just as it |
| 1:01.6 | remains a prescient resource for grasping the multiplication of global |
| 1:06.0 | inequality today. |
| 1:08.3 | In this new edition, Angela Davis offers a striking forward to the book exploring its lasting contributions |
| 1:15.7 | to a revolutionary and feminist practice of anti-imperialism. |
| 1:21.1 | How Europe Underdeveloped Africa by Walter Rodney with a forward by Angela Davis. |
| 1:27.5 | Out now from Jacobin magazine. My name is Daniel Denver and I'm temporarily |
| 1:44.3 | broadcasting from Santiago de Chile. Chicago |
| 1:47.5 | Chicago completed its first round of municipal elections on February 26th |
| 1:52.3 | and the city's socialist and progressive city council |
| 1:55.9 | candidates did shockingly well. And so today I'm turning over my mic to Micah Utricht, Jacobin's managing editor and the author of |
| 2:05.8 | Strike for America Chicago Teachers Against Austerity from Verso Books. |
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