The Dig

Featuring Aziz Rana on the making of the American project and its legitimation through popular worship of the US Constitution. This episode, the third in what is now a four-part series, looks at how black movements responded as the Vietnam War and the limits of formal civil rights victories combined to explode the Cold War’s contradictions. Support The Dig at Patreon.com/TheDig [http://Patreon.com/TheDig] Buy Reconsidering Reparations at Haymarketbooks.com [http://Haymarketbooks.com] Subscribe to a year of Jacobin for only $15— a special offer for Dig listeners! bit.ly/digjacobin [http://bit.ly/digjacobin]

Featuring Aziz Rana on the making of the American project and its legitimation through popular worship of the US Constitution. This episode, the second in a three-part series, takes the story from World War I’s hyper-nationalist, xenophobic First Red Scare, through the convulsions of the middle decades of the 20th century: the Communist Party USA, the New Deal, World War II, the civil rights movement, the Warren Court, and ultimately the Cold War, when American liberalism, anti-communism, and empire triumphed. Buy Iran in Revolt at Haymarketbooks.com [http://Haymarketbooks.com] Register for the Socialism Conference at Socialismconference.org [http://Socialismconference.org] before April 25th for an early bird discount! Support The Dig at Patreon.com/TheDig [http://Patreon.com/TheDig]

Featuring Aziz Rana on the making of the American capitalist, imperialist project and its legitimation through popular worship of the US Constitution. This episode, the first in a three-part series, traces the foundation of the American settler empire from the revolutionary generation up to the eve of World War I. Support The Dig at Patreon.com/TheDig [http://Patreon.com/TheDig] Buy White City, Black City at Plutobooks.com [http://Plutobooks.com] Subscribe to a year of Jacobin for only $15— a special offer for Dig listeners! bit.ly/digjacobin [http://bit.ly/digjacobin]

Jeff Schuhrke on his book Blue Collar Empire: The Untold Story of US Labor’s Global Anticommunist Crusade. During the Cold War, organized labor’s top leadership acted as an agent of the US national security state abroad: undermining left-wing unions, fomenting right-wing coups, and promoting the US-led capitalist order. At home, those same forces destroyed left-wing unions and organizers. That history goes a long way in explaining the weakened, conservative, and ineffectual workers’ movement we still confront today. Support The Dig at Patreon.com/TheDig [http://Patreon.com/TheDig] [don’t sign up using the Patreon iPhone app because the ghouls at Apple are now requiring a fee! use a web browser or non-iPhone app] Register for the Socialism Conference at Socialismconference.org [http://Socialismconference.org] before April 25th for an early bird discount! Buy Hidden San Francisco at Plutobooks.com [http://Plutobooks.com]

Featuring more analysis from Ilias Alami and Tim Sahay on the shape of global geopolitics and geoeconomics. We discuss: the fault lines of the green energy transition; the US and China battle for dominance while the rest of the world seeks advantage and opportunities for leverage; the US and Russia’s full-throttle commitment to fossil capitalism; the IMF’s ongoing imposition of neoliberal austerity on the world’s poorest countries, which, in opposition to these plans, want to remake the entire world capitalist system. Plus: Why the economic weapon failed against China and Russia, and a lot more. The second in a two-part series. Support The Dig at Patreon.com/TheDig [http://Patreon.com/TheDig] Subscribe to The Polycrisis newsletter phenomenalworld.org/series/the-polycrisis [http://phenomenalworld.org/series/the-polycrisis] Download a free copy of The Spectre of State Capitalism by Ilias Alami and Adam Dixon academic.oup.com/book/57552 [http://academic.oup.com/book/57552] Transnational Institute reports: The New Frontline: The US-China Battle for Control of Global Networks tni.org/en/article/the-new-frontline [http://tni.org/en/article/the-new-frontline] Geopolitics of Capitalism: State of Power 2025 tni.org/en/publication/geopolitics-of-capitalism [http://tni.org/en/publication/geopolitics-of-capitalism] Get 50% off Pirate Care and other books in your first order from plutobooks.com [http://plutobooks.com] with code ‘DIG50′.