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 Greece and the reinvention of politics by Alan Badu, translated by David Broder.

In this book, one of the world's leading radical philosophers analyzes the failure of the

Sariza experience in Greece.

Over the last six years, Greece has provided the world with an open-air political lesson. The country's deep

economic and social crisis has exposed the fundamental contradictions of the

European Union and indeed the capitalist world as a whole. It has been a test case for movements seeking to put an end to the

authoritarian anarchy of neoliberal capitalism. The Greek resistance to EU institutions and financial market hegemony offered a beacon of hope.

Yet the movementist politics of 2011 could not build anything lasting, and Seriz's efforts as a party of government soon led to impasse.

For Alambadu, it is not enough to mourn this defeat.

We must understand why such a vigorous opposition could fail.

Greece and the reinvention of politics argues that an opposition of real consequence

must revive the communist hypothesis, the vision of an alternative state structure.

The orienting maxims that this hypothesis provides light the way for effective political action.

Written in the storm of the crisis, the interventions collected in this book offer a path out of

our contemporary powerlessness.

Greece and the reinvention of politics by Alan Badu, out podcast from Jacobin magazine. My name is Daniel

Denver and I'm broadcasting from Providence, Rhode Island.

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