About this episode

Peter Linebaugh discusses the Luddites' revolt and its implications for modern struggles against enclosure.

Featuring Peter Linebaugh on the Luddites’ machine-breaking revolt against the enclosure of handicraft production, the central role played by capital punishment in the consolidation of the capitalist state, and remaking the struggle against enclosure for the 21st century. Support The Dig at Patreon.com/TheDig Dig party in London with Equator magazine on March 13. Info and RSVP here eventbrite.com/e/the-dig-x-equator-party-tickets-1982694479561? Find Solidarity With Children: An Essay Against Adult Supremacy at Haymarketbooks.org Find Revolutions: A New History at Versobooks.com

People in this episode

Host: Daniel Denvir

Guest: Peter Linebaugh

Topics covered

• Luddites
• capital punishment
• capitalist state
• enclosure
• 21st century struggle

Keywords

• Luddites
• machine-breaking
• capital punishment
• capitalist state
• enclosure
• 21st century

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Organizations: The Dig, Equator magazine, Haymarket Books, Verso Books

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