This is acid bad. Hello and welcome to ACFM the home of the weird left. This is a special micro dose

episode to accompany our episode on fascism that will have gone out in the feed sometime before this one does. I'm

Jeremy Gilbert I'm joined as is so often the case by my friend Kere Milburn.

Hello and we are also joined by two special guests who are going to be talking about their research

and their work.

I'm going to ask them to introduce themselves so that you can get used to the sound of their voices. So maybe Arlian

first? Hi, I'm Arlian London. I'm a senior lecturer at the University of Bath in

politics and my work is mostly on the mainstreaming of far-right politics and populist hype.

Darren. Thank you. I'm Aaron Winter. I'm a senior lecturer in sociology at Lancaster University and my work is on racism and the mainstreaming of the far right.

Fantastic. We'll get into some questions. I think we really want to go through your book, Reactionary Democracy, how racism and the

populace far right became mainstream. I think we'll sort of go through perhaps almost

chapter by chapter because we want to get your analysis over. But before we do that, I'll just do the parish notices that we always do on this show.

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A little update from the ACFM crew.

Alternatively, if you want less of the chat and more of the music that we normally play, although we don't play music on

micro-dosis. You can go to the ever-expanding ACFM playlist on Spotify. And we're also

trying to game the algorithms to fight back against algorithmic capitalism by fully engaging

with it.

I'm not sure how that works.

Making ourselves subservient to its logic.

Yes. We bow down before our algorithmic overlords. So please leave

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