By Heather Love Where is the undercommons? Inside the box or outside it? Beyond or beneath us? Do we go somewhere else to find it or do we drop down into it? Stefano Harney addresses this question in “The General… Continue Reading
By Bernard E. Harcourt “But if the critical academic is merely a professional, why spend so much time on him? Why not just steal his books one morning and give them to deregistered students in a closed-down and beery student… Continue Reading
By Rosalind Morris Chantal Mouffe’s texts, For a Left Populism, is correct in its description of the contemporary conjuncture as a “populist moment,” but the text is more symptomatic of this moment than it is critically analytical. Indeed, as many of… Continue Reading
By Steven Lukes It is, I agree, a good idea to separate out different meanings of ‘populism’ in order to open up empirical and historical questions. Here such a question is whether Chantal Mouffe’s proposal to employ ‘a soft form… Continue Reading
By Jan-Werner Mueller Nicolás Maduro is losing his grip on power in Venezuela; Podemos, the self-declared left-populist party in Spain, appears to be splitting at the top; Syriza’s popularity is declining. Conservatives in the US and elsewhere are gleefully pointing to… Continue Reading
By Seyla Benhabib My comments this evening will be brief. In recent years my work has not focused on populism but almost on all the issues that raise red flags for and are hated by populists: the ethics and politics of… Continue Reading
Left Populist “Strategy” as Affective-Identitarianism: A Missed Opportunity at a Critical Moment when Substantive, Rational, Non-Affective, Programmatic Left-Leaning Policies/Politics are Immediate – and Generalizable – Needs By Aysen Candas The term “left populism” has at least two meanings that need to… Continue Reading
By Federico Finchelstein The model of left populism that theorists like Ernesto Laclau and Chantal Mouffe have been conjuring is not the most significant left response to right populism in the United States or Brazil and many other places. On… Continue Reading
By Bernard E. Harcourt In her new book For A Left Populism (Verso 2018), Chantal Mouffe advocates in favor of an egalitarian, open and embracing, populist political strategy that could serve to unite all the people who have been marginalized by… Continue Reading
By Jan-Werner Müller Published at OpenMind The chapter argues that populism should not be understood as primarily a form of anti-elitism. Rather, the hallmark of populists is that they claim that they, and they alone, represent the people (or what populists… Continue Reading