The Rise of Fascism, Bolsonaro, & the Brazilian Elections w/ Michael Fox - Dispatch

Guerrilla History

Henry

History, Education

4.8 • 622 Ratings

🗓️ 21 October 2022

⏱️ 117 minutes

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Summary

In this outstanding conversation, we talk with journalist Michael Fox about the rise of Fascism in Brazil, Bolsonaro, the impending runoff elections, the rise of Evangelicalism, the role of the US in these processes, and much more! We make sure to give plenty of historical background on these current events, so whether you're listening for the history or for analysis of the present, we know you'll enjoy this conversation. We are also lucky to be joined by our friend and comrade Professor Stuart Davis, a researcher of and specialist in comparative media systems in Brazil, as a guest host. You can hear more from Stuart on our Sanctions As War introduction episode, where he was our guest alongside Immanuel Ness.

Michael Fox is a Brazil-based journalist, contributor to The World, former Editor of NACLA, and the host of the podcast series Brazil on Fire, a collaboration between NACLA and The Real News Network. Michael can be followed on Twitter @mfox_us

Stuart Davis is an Assistant Professor of Communication Studies at Baruch College, the City University of New York he focuses on digital media advocacy, protest politics, and digital media and public health, particularly in the Latin American context

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0:00.0	You remember Den Van Boo?
0:09.0	No!
0:10.0	The same thing happened in Algeria, in Africa.
0:14.0	They didn't have anything but a rank.
0:17.0	The French had all these highly mechanized instruments of warfare, but they put some guerrilla action on.
0:27.1	Hello and welcome to guerrilla history, the podcast that acts as a reconnaissance report of global proletarian history and aims to use the lessons of history to analyze the present.
1:11.8	I'm your host, Henry Huckimacki, joined by three co-hosts today, very interestingly, as most listeners would know that we usually just have the three of us. I'm joined by my regular co-hosts, Professor Adnan Hussein, historian and director of the School of Religion at Queens University in Ontario, Canada. Hello, Adnan. How are you doing today? Hi, Henry. I'm well. Great to be with you. Always nice seeing you. And also joined by my other normal co-host, Brett O'Shea, host of Revolutionary Left Radio and co-host of the Red Menace podcast. Hello, Brett. How are you doing? I'm doing great. Happy to be here. Absolutely. Always great seeing you as well.
1:17.0	Now, we do have another co-host today, although this is going to be a special guest co-host,
1:23.3	which for listeners you may be interested, we are looking at trialing some guest-hosted episodes relatively soon where we have one of our returning guests with an expertise in a specific
1:28.5	field, sit in with us on the hosting panel to ask our guests, perhaps more informed
1:34.1	questions than we otherwise might do ourselves. Our special guest today is Professor
1:40.4	Stuart Davis, who was one of our guests on our introductory episode to Sanctions
1:44.6	as War alongside Emmanuel Ness. So hello, Stuart. It's nice to have you back on the show.
1:49.3	Hi, Henry and others. Thank you so much for having me. Absolutely. And Stuart, would you mind just
1:53.7	briefly introducing yourself to the listeners if they haven't already listened to that Sanctions
1:58.8	as War introduction, which they should. They should go back and listen to that episode.
2:02.4	Yes.
2:02.9	So I'm Stuart.
2:03.9	First, yeah, listen to all the episodes of the show and the other shows that the hosts
2:08.4	participate in.
2:10.4	That's a good thing to do.
2:13.3	So I'm Stuart Davis.
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