i want to make a parallel with the united states, because i think we we are experiencing very similara trajectories. That consumerism, the idea that we are defying ourselves, but by what we have and what we can acquire. There was to education, but that education came with a prize tag that was crushing and unbearable. So i think the myth just came wa came into flames, was bas burst into flames in that october,. A something that that was building up and can only be reckoned with when you see both parts of the so called development. One is luxury and waste and evasion and an electrical up economics, and the other is this part of chili that just was left behind
Dan interviews scholars Aldo Madariaga and Camila Vergara about how Chilean politics have been playing out since the massive popular uprisings that began in October 2019.
Further reading:
jacobinlat.com/2021/06/19/el-neoliberalismo-atenta-contra-la-democracia-2
newleftreview.org/sidecar/posts/burying-pinochet
jacobinmag.com/2021/06/rene-rojas-interview-democracy-new-constitution-constituent-assembly-plebiscite-left-chile
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