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Things have been pretty bleak across the US lately, so Meagan Day and Micah Uetricht were eager to talk to a socialist who actually won something recently: Nikil Saval, a democratic socialist who recently won the Democratic Primary for a state senate seat in Pennsylvania's first district. A profile of Nikil: https://www.jacobinmag.<wbr />com/2020/05/pennsylvania-<wbr />nikil-saval-rick-krajewski-<wbr />reclaim-philadelphia Nikil's 2016 article about Bernie: https://nplusonemag.<wbr />com/issue-26/the-intellectual-<wbr />situation/canvassing/

In this episode, Gabe talks with Gavin Mueller about Luddism. (Alex's internet died, so she's not part of this one.) What can an insurrection of machine breaking tell us about how solidarity develops? How should we relate to technology, and what role does technology — and opposition to it — play in the development of solidarity? Secondary readings: Eric Hobsbawm, "The Machine Breakers," https://www.jstor.org/stable/<wbr />649989 Sophie Lewis, Full Surrogacy Now (https://www.versobooks.com/<wbr />books/2951-full-surrogacy-now) Salar Mohandesi, "Class Consciousness or Class Composition?" https://<wbr />guilfordjournals.com/doi/abs/<wbr />10.1521/siso.2013.77.1.72 Online library of Johnson-Forest Tendency writings: https://libcom.org/<wbr />tags/johnson%E2%80%93forest-<wbr />tendency

Aziz Rana interviews Dan Denvir on how policing and mass incarceration became core features of the war on immigrants and on his book All-American Nativism: How the Bipartisan War on Immigrants Explains Politics as We Know It.Please support this podcast wit $ at Patreon.com/TheDigBuy Dan's book at versobooks.com/books/2858-all-american-nativism