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Brazil is headed toward fascism by way of Jair Bolsonaro, a sexist, homophobic, and violent militarist clown nostalgic for a murderous dictatorship. How did this happen? Alfredo Saad-Filho, a Professor of Political Economy at SOAS University of London, explains the roots of right-wing reaction and left-wing collapse—and the ultimately disastrous results of a PT governance strategy centered on an accommodation with a capitalist order that could only last as long as the global commodity boom did. Read “Bolsonaro’s Conservative Revolution” by Matthew Aaron Richmond https://jacobinmag.com/2018/10/brazil-election-bolsonaro-evangelicals-security Thanks to Verso Books. Check out their huge catalogue of left-wing books at www.versobooks.com Please support this podcast with your money at Patreon.com/TheDig

Socialist Alternative’s Kshama Sawant was elected to Seattle City Council way before socialism became a cool thing. Today, Dan’s talking to Sawant about how socialists can build power and win at the local level—and how in Seattle, that means taking on Amazon, which recently coerced her colleagues on Council to reverse themselves on a big-business tax that was earmarked to help the homeless people who have been squeezed out of the housing market by an economy dominated by those very same big businesses. Thanks to Verso Books. Check out their enormous catalogue of left-wing books at www.versobooks.com Please support this podcast with money at Patreon.com/TheDig

Today, we’re addressing one of the most obnoxious corners of the identity politics debate. And that is the corner occupied by Right Liberals who believe that any desire to change the world is a divisive symptom of maladjusted affluenza emanating from pampered college students. Moira Weigel discusses her Guardian review of The Coddling of the American Mind, which makes its case by way of pragmatic folk aphorisms like: “Prepare the child for the road, not the road for the child”. Thanks to Verso Books. Check out their huge catalogue of left-wing books at www.versobooks.com Please support this podcast with you money at patreon.com/TheDig