#leftpopulism — Public Fediverse posts

https://www.equator.org/articles/farewell-to-podemos

This piece might be a useful starting point for a discussion of the failure of left populism in Europe.

I''m going to be keeping an eye on "Equator", a new periodical of the left, although I fear that it might be serving up large portions of reheated Third Worldism and "Israel is the source of all the world's problems" nonsense.

#Podemos #Spain #Politics #History #LeftPopulism #Equator #EuropeanPolitics

in one of my final seminars we discussed #Balibar and the impact of #LeftPopulism on real politics.

turns out none (!) of my (European, Dutch) students had ever heard of either #Podemos or #SYRIZA. they knew #Fidesz and #PiS, but left populism was a primarily theoretical concept to them.

that is perhaps a strong argument against it, no?

@politicaltheory @philosophy

How the Dravidian Model of Development Succeeded in Tamil Nadu

In prioritising the counter hegemonic articulations of the plebes against the exploitative Brahminical social order, Dravidianism evolved a new common sense of equity as the bedrock of popular, electoral democracy.

#TamilNadu #DravidianModel #development #dravidianism #economy #industry #democracy #brahminism #ThomasPiketty #LeftPopulism #books #bookstodon #AKalaiyarasan #MVijayabaskar #india

https://thewire.in/books/how-the-dravidian-model-of-development-succeeded-in-tamil-nadu

@wlarge @Rednotgrey
I was one of that 13million

I don't care about internal #labour rows I am not a member

I do care about removing the #toriesOut from power - and that never happens with a leader from the #labourLeft

saddling their party with a leader who had never even held a cabinet post was folly of the first order

There is no such political force as #leftPopulism in the UK - this is not #venezuela

#labour can only win when they attract #centrist votes

Interview with Chantal Mouffe about her new book on environmental justice.

Mouffe: "The climate movement must be politicised. In order to deal with climate change we need good policies, but that is not enough; there must be desire for policies. So people will feel empowered to find a better life. The worst approach to climate politics is a punitive one."

#climate #justice #climatejustice #leftpopulism #ChantalMouffe #bookstodon #books #politics

https://democracy.uia.no/mouffe-interview-green-democratic-revolution/