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 Alain 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 Ceres' efforts as a party of government soon led to impasse.

For Elamadou, 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 Alain Badu.

Out now from Verso Books.

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