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The Dig is Daniel Denvir’s Jacobin podcast on politics, history, and economics everywhere. Please support us on Patreon: www.patreon.com/thedig

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Featuring Alyssa Battistoni on Free Gifts: Capitalism and the Politics of Nature. Fossil-fueled capitalism has pushed our planet into a profound set of crises. How Marxists should make sense of this all, however, is unclear. Battistoni offers a Marxi... more

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Featuring Yael Bridge, Jeremy Flood, and Erick Stoll on Who Moves America, a powerful documentary about the massive 2023 Teamsters strike against UPS that ultimately did not happen.

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Featuring Chris Brooks on labor’s crisis and the strategic, militant class struggle that can turn it all around. Brooks, former chief of staff to UAW President Shawn Fain, urges organizers to be flexible in their methodology, explains the federal mon... more

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Featuring Ben Tarnoff and Quinn Slobodian on their book Muskism: A Guide for the Perplexed. What the world’s bizarre richest man reveals about our financially fabulist, hard tech, far-right political-economic era.

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Recent Guests

Alyssa Battistoni
Professor of political science at Barnard College and author of Free Gifts
Barnard College
Episode: Free Gifts w/ Alyssa Battistoni
Yael Bridge
Documentary filmmaker and director-producer of Who Moves America
Episode: Who Moves America w/ Yael Bridge, Jeremy Flood, and Erick Stoll
Jeremy Flood
Filmmaker and producer of Who Moves America, with experience in the labor movement and political campaigns
Episode: Who Moves America w/ Yael Bridge, Jeremy Flood, and Erick Stoll
Erick Stoll
Nonfiction filmmaker focused on labor, gentrification, and capitalism
Episode: Who Moves America w/ Yael Bridge, Jeremy Flood, and Erick Stoll
Chris Brooks
Veteran labor organizer and strategist, former UAW chief of staff to Shawn Fain
United Auto Workers (UAW) / Jacobin contributor
Episode: Confronting Labor’s Crisis w/ Chris Brooks
Ben Tarnoff
Writer and co-author of Muskism, A Guide for the Perplexed
Author, New York Review of Books / The New York Times etc.
Episode: Muskism w/ Ben Tarnoff & Quinn Slobodian
Quinn Slobodian
Professor of international history and co-author of Muskism, A Guide for the Perplexed
Boston University
Episode: Muskism w/ Ben Tarnoff & Quinn Slobodian
Ben Shanahan
DSA member and campaign strategist
David Morales' campaign (Providence mayoral bid)
Episode: Winning Providence w/ Ben Shanahan
David Wallace-Wells
Writer for New York Times Opinion; author of The Uninhabitable Earth
New York Times; The Uninhabitable Earth
Episode: Insuring Catastrophe w/ David Wallace-Wells, Madison Condon, Moira Birss

Host

Daniel Denvir
Host of The Dig; organizer active in leftist politics; affiliated with Jacobin Magazine

Reviews

4.8 out of 5 stars from 3.2k ratings
  • In-depth, serious discussions

    With two-hour interviews, Denvir gives thinkers time to do much more than sound-bite summaries of their books.

    Apple Podcasts
    5
    Greta in Brooklyn
    United Statesa month ago
  • Was an avid listener

    I was introduced to this pod about 4 yrs ago and became an avid listener. I appreciated the focus on political histories across cultures and generations. It seemed a refreshing departure from the Bernie Bro/ Jacobin style avoidance of racism and race as real lived components of political histories past and present with very real consequences. I looked forward to new episodes and shared them with friends.

    After recently learning of Daniel Denvir's bizarre treatment of Brihanna Joy Gray during a ... more

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    3
    But…….why?
    United States2 months ago
  • Soooo many wonderful interviews!

    Podcast Addict
    5
    Jon E D
    3 months ago
  • Supi duppi

    Ich liebe den Podcast. Immer sehr interessant

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    Kurt grömmer
    Germany3 months ago
  • Mandatory listening

    I never have enough words to say how much this podcast means to me - every new episode makes me smarter

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    HenrytheWorst
    United States4 months ago

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Some criticism notes long interview lengths and gender parity concerns.

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Talking Points

Recent interactions between the hosts and their guests.

Free Gifts w/ Alyssa Battistoni
Q: How does the concept of supra-assumption help explain the free gift of nature under capitalism and also capitalism's complex relationship to the domination of the labor process?
Battistoni says capital cannot always reorganize nature-facing work as tightly as factory production because biological and seasonal processes resist full control. Capital can nevertheless manage these processes indirectly through buyers, processors, piecework and family labor, incorporating them into accumulation without fully controlling production.
Free Gifts w/ Alyssa Battistoni
Q: What's this mainstream economic theory about what prices do and how has it been applied to the ecological crisis?
Battistoni explains that mainstream economics treats prices as signals of social valuation and describes climate change as an externality because emissions impose costs that markets do not price. She argues that pricing carbon is an inadequate fix for a crisis rooted more deeply in capitalism.
Who Moves America w/ Yael Bridge, Jeremy Flood, and Erick Stoll
Q: What does the film say about organized labor in the United States and possible paths forward?
Jeremy Flood emphasizes that everyday workers can build power through conversations and solidarity. The filmmakers describe the importance of rank-and-file participation, while recognizing that workers' experiences and outcomes are varied and that broader labor strategy remains unresolved.
Who Moves America w/ Yael Bridge, Jeremy Flood, and Erick Stoll
Q: What was it like for workers and filmmakers when the anticipated UPS strike did not happen?
The filmmakers initially worried that the story had lost its central event, but came to see a richer film in workers' varied reactions. Some were disappointed, some relieved, and many focused on the contract; some activists felt a missed opportunity to build strike experience and solidarity.
Confronting Labor’s Crisis w/ Chris Brooks
Q: How does the guest propose labor should respond strategically to the current environment?
He advocates blending structure-based organizing with momentum/movement organizing, using data-driven targeting, rapid mobilization, and a willingness to take calculated risks to win contracts and expand the union's reach, especially in high-value industries like auto manufacturing and tech-enabled sectors.

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