This is a special TWO PART episode with Historian and Jacobin Europe editor David Broder.

In Part I (recorded July 10th 2024), we discuss recent European Parliamentary and French election results, how both the right and left fared in the outcome, and the implications of these results for Europe, EU expansion and more.

In Part II (starts at 50:45), through a discussion of David's 2023 book Mussolini's Grandchildren: Fascism in Contemporary Italy we explore how the current right wing political imagination in Italy and Europe at large are mobilized through historical memory. We also examine how anti-communist memory politics in Western Europe relate to anti-communist memory politics in post-communist countries.

David Broder is a historian, writer, translator and editor of Jacobin Europe.

Check out David's book Mussolini's Grandchildren here:

https://www.plutobooks.com/9780745348025/mussolinis-grandchildren/