On the country of the future.
Italy has stagnated for 30 years, becoming a neoliberal gerontocracy with crumbling infrastructure (sound familiar?). Worse, it's a country without a Left. How did the populist right come to triumph? What is the relationship between high emigration and hostility to immigration? And how were the seeds sown 30 years ago with the collapse of the First Republic, Europeanisation, and Berlusconi's rise? Is there now a possibility of 'Italexit'?
Readings:
First They Took Rome: How the Populist Right Conquered Italy, David Broder, Verso
Excerpt: /122/ TFW NO GF
UNLOCKED /120/ Damaged Beyond Repair? ft. Anton Jäger
/121/ Those Murdering Bastards ft. Vincent Bevins
Excerpt: /120/ Damaged Beyond Repair ft. Anton Jäger
Excerpt: /119/ Reading Club: Digital Socialism
Excerpt: /118/ Three Articles: Covid
/117/ Against The Virus ft. John McAfee
/116/ Mr Bunga Goes to Washington (1) ft. Nick Frayn
Excerpt: /115/ Singapore Shangri-La ft. Lee Jones
Excerpt: /114/ Reading Club: The Light That Failed
/113/ Globoville ft. Richard Williams
Excerpt: /112/ Ideologies of the Near Future
/111/ Big Money Talk: The Case for MMT ft. Bill Mitchell
Excerpt: /110/ Three Articles: De-democratising
/109/ Bunga Goes Ballard ft. Simon Sellars
/108/ Coronageddon? ft. Mark Honigsbaum / Lee Jones
/107/ Ireland’s Return to History ft. Colin Coulter
Excerpt: /106/ The Endless Scrolling of Cinema ft. Maren Thom
Excerpt: /105/ The Lorax & the AK-47 ft. Leigh Phillips
/104/ The Aristocracy of Finance ft. Alexander Zevin
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