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One that you might like is Being Numerous, essays on non-fascist life

by Natasha Leonard.

Being Numerous shatters the mainstream consensus on politics and personhood,

offering in its place a bracing analysis of a perilous world and how we should live in it.

Beginning with an interrogation of what it means to fight fascism,

Natasha Leonard explores the limits of individual rights, the criminalization

of political dissent, the myths of radical sex, and the ghosts in our lives.

At once politically committed and philosophically capacious,

being numerous is a revaluation of the idea that the personal is political

and situates as the central question. of the idea that the personal is political,

insituates as the central question of our time,

how can we live a non-fascist life?

Being numerous, essays on non-Fascist Life by Natasha Leonard, out podcast from Jacobin magazine. My name is Daniel Denver and I'm temporarily broadcasting from Santiago

they Chile. There is perhaps no more depressing situation in Western Europe than that

which prevails in Italy.

A coalition government between the Far Right Lega Party and the now subordinate,

bizarre, amorphously anti-corruption, internet fetishist, pseudo-directly

democratic, five-star movement. In other words, Italian politics is

dominated by a viciously racist anti-immigrant politics.

The left, along with most traditional forces, is in disarray. Today, Lega, led by Interior Minister Mateo Salvini, runs Italian politics.

And after the recent EU elections, they also form part of a sizable block of far-right

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