Behind the News: Technocracy in Italy w/ Paolo Gerbaudo

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🗓️ 1 August 2022

⏱️ 53 minutes

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Summary

Doug interviews Paolo Gerbaudo on the failure of technocracy and the imminence of right-wing rule in Italy. Then Chris Bohner, author of a recent report called Labor's Fortress of Finance and a Jacobin article, "Now Is the Time for Unions to Go on the Offensive," discusses the huge stash unions have but aren't spending.

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0:00.0	.
0:10.0	.
0:20.0	.
0:28.0	.
0:33.0	Hello and welcome to Behind the News.
0:35.0	My name is Doug Henwood.
0:36.0	Two guests today who will be surprised to hear.
0:38.0	The political sociologist, Paolo Gerbardo,
0:41.0	will talk about political developments in Italy,
0:43.0	where a party that features descendants of Vanito Mussolini
0:46.0	looks poised to take some degree of power.
0:48.0	And veteran Union researcher Chris Boner will describe
0:51.0	just how much money organized labor has that it isn't spending.
0:54.0	In Italy, the economist, PhD from MIT,
0:57.0	and central banker turned Prime Minister Mario Draghi,
1:00.0	beloved of centrist politicians and pundits but few others,
1:03.0	resigned in July 21 after no confidence vote in Parliament.
1:07.0	There will be elections in September for new Parliament,
1:10.0	and a trio of right-wing parties are likely to emerge victors
1:13.0	and will form a coalition government.
1:15.0	The three are Forza Italia, the vehicle for the clonish
1:18.0	but durable businessman, Silvio Berlusconi,
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