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#populism

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Miguel Afonso Caetano

"The problem, indeed, is a more general one. No populism, right or left, has so far produced a powerful remedy for the ills it denounces. Programmatically, the contemporary opponents of neoliberalism are still for the most part whistling in the dark. How is inequality to be tackled – not just tinkered with – in a serious fashion, without immediately bringing on a capital strike? What measures might be envisaged for meeting the enemy blow for blow on that contested terrain, and emerging victorious? What sort of reconstruction, by now inevitably a radical one, of actually existing liberal democracy would be required to put an end to the oligarchies it has spawned? How is the deep state, organised in every Western country for imperial war – clandestine or overt – to be dismantled? What reconversion of the economy to combat climate change, without impoverishing already poor societies in other continents, is imagined? That so many arrows remain missing in the quiver of serious opposition to the status quo is not, of course, just the fault of today’s populisms. It reflects the intellectual contraction of the left in its long years of retreat since the 1970s, and the sterility in that time of what were once original strands of thought at the edges of the mainstream. Remedial proposals can be cited, varying from country to country: Medicare for all in the US, guaranteed citizen incomes in Italy, public investment banks in Britain, Tobin taxes in France and the like. But so far as any general, interlocking alternative to the status quo is concerned, the cupboard is still bare. (...) Politically speaking, neoliberalism has been in no great danger from either."

lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v47/n06/pe

London Review of Books · Perry Anderson · Regime Change in the West?Where amid this turmoil does neoliberalism stand? In emergency conditions it has been forced to take measures –...
#Neoliberalism#Populism#Austerity
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A.Stringer

"Most people drop the #ideology pretty quickly once they get the #support they need. They belong to these groups because they’re getting something from them. You have to become the surrogate of that support so they don’t need the group any more."

As a hate-filled kid, I turned to #farrightideology. Now I help others avoid that path | Matthew Quinn | The Guardian
theguardian.com/commentisfree/

#hatecrime
#farrightgroups
#farrightgrooming
#underlyingcausesofracism
#populism
#supportgroup
#grooming

The Guardian · As a hate-filled kid, I turned to far-right ideology. Now I help others avoid that pathBy Georgia Wilkins
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Liberal Currents

"Intellectualized efforts to make anti-democratic right-wing sentiments attractive are one thing. When and how they became politically efficacious is another. Scholars debate when the first recognizable forms of politically effective right-wing #populism emerged." liberalcurrents.com/the-origin

Liberal Currents · The Origins of Right Wing PopulismThe intellectual history of this seemingly contradictory political tendency.
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Lazarou Monkey Terror 🚀💙🌈

See whole nations run at the behest of just one man, Putin with Russia, Trump with Gilead, and Netanyahu with Israel.

He would happily destroy Israel if it kept him out of jail, and maybe he will. All we can do is watch.

theguardian.com/world/2025/mar

The Guardian · Deadly Israeli strikes in Gaza and Lebanon amid calls for halt to ‘endless war’By Lorenzo Tondo
#Netanyahu#Fascism#Populism
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A.Stringer

"So far, the net effect of #MAGA foreign policy has been to get exactly zero concessions from Moscow, while simultaneously reviving the fortunes of #Canada’s #LiberalParty and helping the mainstream center-right win in #Greenland."

The Global #PopulistRight Has a MAGA Problem - The Atlantic
theatlantic.com/international/

#populism
#EuropeanPolitics
#NigelFarage
#USpol

The Atlantic · The Global Populist Right Has a MAGA ProblemBy Helen Lewis
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