/413/ Left-Populism That Works? (I) ft. Roger Lancaster

On Mexico's elections.

 

[Full episode at patreon.com/bungacast]

 

Mexico goes to the polls this Sunday with the ruling centre-left MORENA party holding a commanding lead. Anthropologist Roger Lancaster joins us to preview the election and look at outgoing President AMLO's record.

• What are the stakes in this election?
• Has Mexico bucked the trend of class realignment? Where is the 'Brahmin Left'?
• What is "republican austerity" and has this actually combatted corruption?
• What do make of AMLO's use of the military? Militarising public life or domesticating the military?
• What has AMLO done for the working class? And what might it do for itself?
• What is AMLO's populism and has he rekindled class consciousness?

Links:

• The AMLO Project, Edwin Ackerman, Sidecar
• The Mexican Question, Ramon Centeno, Sidecar
• The Struggle to Be Gay—in Mexico, for Example, Roger Lancaster