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the Hello and welcome to another episode of Politics Theory Other, a podcast from Tribune magazine.

My name is Alex Doherty and my guest today is Dorit Gever.

We talked about the recent re-election victory of Victor Orban in Hungary

and Dorit's article, Orban's autonationalism as post-neoliberal hegemony,

which is published in the journal Theory, Culture and Society.

We discussed why Orban secured such a convincing electoral victory

in spite of the opposition's highlighting

of government corruption and Orban's friendly relations with Vladimir Putin. We went on to talk about

the innovative character of Orban's post-neoliberal rule, which involves not merely erosion of democratic

norms, but also the combining of certain elements of a neoliberal marketization agenda with

efforts to promote national capital at the expense of foreign corporations and the radical

centralisation of state power.

Today's show is brought to you by PTO's supporters on Patreon and also by Verso Books,

who have lots of great titles that may be of interest to PTO listeners.

One you might like to check out is Scorched Earth Beyond the Digital Age to a Post-Captalist World by Jonathan Crary.

In his new book, Crary presents the obvious but unsayable reality that our digital age is synonymous with the disastrous terminal stage

of global capitalism and its financialization of social existence, ecocide and military terror.

He dismantles the presumption that social media could be an instrument of radical change

and contends that the networks and platforms of transnational corporations

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