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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

Suzi talks toRobert Brenner,who has just published “Escalating Plunder” in New Left Review 123, about the federal response to the shutdown of the economy in the wake of the coronavirus. The punchline is that the COVID-19 bailout, or Cares Act, not only escalates plunder, it is predation on steroids in a stalled economy in worsening decline. In other words, the bipartisan establishment has concluded that they can only intervene — and call it rescue — by underwriting the rip-off already in motion, bailing out the top 0.1 percent in the face of plunging production, employment, and profits. Brenner calls out predation. We get his analysis.