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The new populism : democracy stares into the abyss / Marco Revelli ; translated by David Broder.
"The word 'populism' has come to cover all manner of sins. Yet despite the prevalence of its use, it is often difficult to understand what connects its various supposed expressions. From Syriza to Trump and from Podemos to Brexit, the electoral earthquakes of recent years have often been grouped under this term. But what actually defines 'populism'? Is it an ideology, a form of organisation, or a mentality? Marco Revelli seeks to answer this question by getting to grips with the historical dynamics of so-called 'populist' movements. While in the early days of democracy, populism sought to represent classes and social layers who asserted their political role for the first time, in today's post-democratic climate, it instead expresses the grievances of those who had until recently felt that they were included. Having lost their power, the disinherited embrace not a political alternative to -isms like liberalism or socialism, but a populist mood of discontent. The new populism is the 'formless form' that protest and grievance assume in the era of financialisation, in the era where the atomised masses lack voice or organisation. For Revelli, this new populism the child of an age in which the Left has been hollowed out and lost its capacity to offer an alternative"-- Provided by publisher.
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- ISBN: 9781788734509 (trade paperback)
- Physical Description: vi, 220 pages ; 21 cm
- Publisher: London : Verso, 2019.
Content descriptions
| General Note: | "Originally published in Italian as Populismo 2.0"--Title page verso. |
| Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Formatted Contents Note: | Populism 2.0 : democracy's senile disorder -- The word is not enough -- From the origins to the apprentice -- Europa infelix/Brexit -- Europa infelix, 2/France, Germany and the rest -- Italy's "three populisms" -- Conclusion : the age of the void. |
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| Subject: | Populism. Populism > Europe. |
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"The word 'populism' has come to cover all manner of sins. Yet despite the prevalence of its use, it is often difficult to understand what connects its various supposed expressions. From Syriza to Trump and from Podemos to Brexit, the electoral earthquakes of recent years have often been grouped under this term. But what actually defines 'populism'? Is it an ideology, a form of organisation, or a mentality? Marco Revelli seeks to answer this question by getting to grips with the historical dynamics of so-called 'populist' movements. While in the early days of democracy, populism sought to represent classes and social layers who asserted their political role for the first time, in today's post-democratic climate, it instead expresses the grievances of those who had until recently felt that they were included. Having lost their power, the disinherited embrace not a political alternative to -isms like liberalism or socialism, but a populist mood of discontent. The new populism is the 'formless form' that protest and grievance assume in the era of financialisation, in the era where the atomised masses lack voice or organisation. For Revelli, this new populism the child of an age in which the Left has been hollowed out and lost its capacity to offer an alternative"-- - Book News
When the term post-democracy is bandied about itâs time to deal with the underlying social crisis that is shaking up the political order, and challenge the way it has rapidly coalesced, redrawing the structure of social classes and groups, with the widespread déclassement of the middle classes. Not to forget, also the unravelling of good manners and civility. Ravelli rolls out a new version of the word populism, which he calls Populism 2.0âa version with new and unprecedented characteristics-and puts it in context. He does not see populism as a political party, or a movement, or an actor. It is not a âismâ, rather it is a mood, a social malaise, impulses to protest in societies that have been crushed and reworked by globalization and finance. A vacuum was produced by the dissolution of what was the Left, and of its capacity to articulate protest as a proposal for change and an alternative to the present state of things. Most recent analyses, following the social and political upheavals produced by the Great Recession, offer âpopulismâ as context, and populism as projectâone a generic moodâattached to a still vague attitude of distance from, and hostility toward, institutional actors and the establishment; and, on the other hand, populism as a political culture unto itself, determined to seek power in a strategic manner, on the basis of a specific political program. Annotation ©2019 Ringgold, Inc., Portland, OR (protoview.com) - Random House, Inc.
A crisp and trenchant dissection of populism today
The word 'populism' has come to cover all manner of sins. Yet despite the prevalence of its use, it is often difficult to understand what connects its various supposed expressions. From Syriza to Trump and from Podemos to Brexit, the electoral earthquakes of recent years have often been grouped under this term. But what actually defines 'populism'? Is it an ideology, a form of organisation, or a mentality?
Marco Revelli seeks to answer this question by getting to grips with the historical dynamics of so-called 'populist' movements. While in the early days of democracy, populism sought to represent classes and social layers who asserted their political role for the first time, in today's post-democratic climate, it instead expresses the grievances of those who had until recently felt that they were included.
Having lost their power, the disinherited embrace not a political alternative to -isms like liberalism or socialism, but a populist mood of discontent. The new populism is the 'formless form' that protest and grievance assume in the era of financialisation, in the era where the atomised masses lack voice or organisation. For Revelli, this new populism the child of an age in which the Left has been hollowed out and lost its capacity to offer an alternative.
