'Fascinating and trenchant, this account of contemporary Italian neo-fascism is both original and shocking' - John Foot, historianThe dominant force in Italian politics is Giorgia Meloni's Fratelli d'Italia — a party with a direct genealogy from Mussolini's regime. Surging to prominence in recent years, it has waged a fierce culture war around national identity, polarised political debate around World War II, and secured the largest vote share in Italy's 2022 gener...

Un libro di fondamentale importanza per comprendere l’Italia di oggi.«Una profonda conoscenza storica e un'acuta analisi politica si coniugano nelprimo libro che spiega la genesi del governo postfascista nel paese di Mussolini. Mentre offre un affresco suggestivo e implacabile dell'Italia recente, Broder fornisce i mezzi per capire il fenomeno della destra estrema al potere nelle democrazie. »Donatella Di Cesare«È davver...

Italy’s political disaster under a microscopeThere is little that hasn’t gone wrong for Italy in the last three decades. Economic growth has flatlined, infrastructure has crumbled, and out-of-work youth find their futures stuck on hold. These woes have been reflected in the country’s politics, from Silvio Berlusconi’s scandals to the rise of the far right.Many commentators blame Italy’s malaise on cultural ills—pointing to the corruption of public life or a...

The fastest-rising force in Italian politics is Giorgia Meloni's Fratelli d'Italia—a party with a direct genealogy from Mussolini's regime. Surging to prominence in recent years, it has waged a fierce culture war against the left, polarized political debate around WWII, and even secured the largest vote share in Italy's 2022 general election. Eighty years after the fall of Mussolini, his heirs, and admirers are again on the brink of taking power.Mussolini's Grandchildren d...

OctoberBy: David BroderCan an angry, disaffected, self-destructive young man find hope and solace at an insane asylum when he doesn’t believe they can possibly exist?It is 1983, and Derek is twenty-one and at war with existence itself. If he is vanquished, he lives. If he is victorious, he dies.October challenges all the life-affirming ideas we have been imbued with by calling into question the notions that life has value and meaning, that love is not selfis...

During the final years of the Second World War, a decisive change took place in the Italian left, as the Italian Communist Party (PCI) rose from clandestinity and recast itself as a mass, patriotic force committed to building a new democracy. This book explains how this new party came into being. Using Rome as its focus, it explains that the rebirth of the PCI required that it subdue other, dissident strands of communist thinking. During the nine-month German occupation of Rome in 1943-44,...

Por que a Itália se tornou um desastre político? Há pouca explicação detalhando por que deu tudo errado na Itália nas últimas três décadas. O crescimento econômico estagnou, a infraestrutura desmoronou e os jovens desempregados não têm mais futuro. Esses problemas são reflexos da política que dominou o país, dos escândalos de Silvio Berlusconi à ascensão da extrema direita. Muitos comentaristas culpam o mal-estar da Itália por males culturais – apontando para a corrupção da vida pública ou...

This authoritative survey of the new radical left forming across Europe offers "ammo for the struggles ahead, not to be ignored" (Susan Weissman, award-winning journalist and editor of Victor Serge).In Greece, Ireland, Portugal, and Spain, the debt crisis that began with the 2008 global recession helped trigger severe austerity measures. These policies, intended to address government debts, only worsened economic conditions.In response, something h...

A rich and audacious account of the mutually reinforcing transformations of capitalism and technology in the age of AIThis book provides a critical theory of the new stage of algorithmic capitalism, and maps out paths for critique and resistance. AI and algorithms are not just technologies, they are rooted in new capitalist forms and processes that transcend economics and technology. as a result, they profoundly reshape social reality, politics, culture and subject...

In an era when intellectual and artistic life is increasingly being distorted by political dogmatism, Julien Benda’s Treason of the Intellectuals is a classic that speaks with a new and extraordinary urgency. Benda’s essay, published by ERIS in a new translation by David Broder, offers an incisive account of interwar Europe that ranges from the influence of Friedrich Nietzsche and Georges Sorel to the activities of Charles Maurras and Benito Mussolini. It also serves, however, as ...

Taking as an example the Clinton health care reform initiative, the authors show how a policy that aimed to please everyone ended by satisfying no one due to pressure groups, political gamesmanship and the inertia of the American 'system'.

Spinoza is among the most controversial and asymmetrical thinkers in the tradition and history of modern European philosophy. Since the 17th century, his work has aroused some of the fiercest and most intense polemics in the discipline. From his expulsion from the synagogue and onwards, Spinoza has never ceased to embody the secular, heretical and self-loathing Jew. Ivan Segré, a philosopher and celebrated scholar of the Talmud, discloses the conservative underpinnings that have animated S...