By Bernard E. Harcourt Praxis 9/13 on “Left Populism” opened with the provocative question whether Bernie Sanders is a left populist. The discussion began with an excerpt from the very first pages of Bernie Sanders’ Guide to Political Revolution: The… Continue Reading
By Nikita Shepard A curious emotion seemed to flow through the discussion of left populism tonight: a nostalgia for an imagined democracy. Both the proponents and the critics of left populism seem united in their evocation of a democracy—perhaps modified… 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 Didier Fassin Chantal Mouffe builds her manifesto for a left populism on a relatively straightforward political diagnosis. First, we are living through a populist moment, populism being defined as the discursive strategy opposing the elite and the people. It… 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 Jean L. Cohen Invoking Polanyi to help diagnose populism is very much in vogue. But, as Adam Tooze noted in a recent blog post, the Polanyian church is broad. It includes academics in a variety of disciplines (philosophy, political… 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