1. Is there a leftwing anti-populism? Meet Slavoj Žižek.
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Venizelos, Giorgos, Galanopoulos, Antonis, and Zicman de Barros, Thomás
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POPULISM ,ETHICISTS ,AVALANCHES ,ELITISM ,POLITICIANS - Abstract
In October 2018, Slavoj Žižek published a two-part contribution titled 'Should the Left's answer to rightist populism be really a "me too"?'. In this text, Žižek reproduced his diachronic skepticism on populism as a fruitful strategy for the Left. In a critical vein, we believe that Žižek's latest interventions join - unconsciously or not - an avalanche of antipopulist discourses that usually emanate from elitist politicians and journalists, and reproduce a moralist, alarmist stance against populism. As a consequence, anti-populist elitism blurs the concept of populism even more thereby hampering our possibilities to capture the changing politico-historic reality in the age of collapsing neoliberalism. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2019