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/312/ Consolation-Prize Marxism & the Bunga-Bunga State ft. Dylan Riley

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Is the Impartiality of the State a Reality?

I wonder how novel the figure of Trump is, or for that matter, Bolsonaro did much of the same in Brazil. Obviously, you can think of various Latin American patrimonial practices, which have long-melded private interests in public office. Berlusconi, probably as the kind of most obvious forerunner to Trump, did that repeatedly in Italy. So I would say that it does strike me that something did change around 1990. And we saw it with the rise of Berlusconi is the canary in the coal mine to the whole new political phase.

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