This episode of The Dig is brought to you by our supporters on Patreon and by Verso Books,

which has loads of great left-wing titles, perfect for dig listeners like you.

One that you might like is Out of the Reckage, a New Politics for an Age of Crisis by George Monbeo,

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I interviewed George just recently about this very book on this show.

A toxic ideology of extreme competition in individualism dominates our world.

It misrepresents human nature, destroying hope and common purpose.

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lights a path to a better future. Guardian columnist George Monbio shows how new findings in

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society. Out of the wreckage. A New Politics for an Age of Crisis by George Monbio. Out now in

paperback from Verso Books.

Welcome to The Dig, a podcast from Jacobin magazine. My name is Daniel Denver, and I'm broadcasting from Providence, Rhode Island.

Andres Manuel Lopez-Obrador, or Amlo, has won an overwhelming victory in Mexico's presidential election.

He's the left candidate, and he shattered a corrupt, old-party system that brought ordinary

Mexicans rampant violence and economic emissoration.

But Amlo will face powerful political and economic constraints once in office, including some of his

own making, like an alliance with a conservative evangelical Christian party.

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