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2. THE IMAGE OF THE URBAN PEOPLE: VISUAL ANALYSIS OF THE SPATIALISED DEMOS OF LEFT-WING POPULISM IN MADRID.
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García Agustín, Óscar and Cossarini, Paolo
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CITY dwellers , *POLITICAL campaigns , *POLITICAL parties , *IMAGE analysis , *SCHOLARLY method , *PUBLIC spaces - Abstract
This paper focuses on the visual representation of "the urban people" by the Spanish leftwing populist party Unidas Podemos (UP) during the campaign for regional elections in Madrid in 2021. The political environment was characterised by increasing polarisation and the hyper-leadership of two candidates, right-wing Isabel Díaz Ayuso and UP's national leader Pablo Iglesias. In this context, UP employed a diverse range of images and audiovisual material with a specific focus on the urban dimension. This paper explores how the populist logic and societal split--the people vs. the elite--deployed by UP are visually represented and connected with the urban space. Drawing on the central role of images in politics, this paper contributes to the emerging scholarship on the visual and spatial dimensions of populism by (a) exploring the connections between populist imaginary, space, and the visual; (b) advancing an empirical analysis of the image of "the people" in a left-wing political party; and (c) connecting the imaginary of populism to its geo-graphical dimension, stressing both the urban and class divide. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2023
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3. The Neglected Populists: Breaking Down the Performance of the Left-Leaning New Democratic Party in the 2021 Canadian Federal Election
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Turcotte, André, Raynauld, Vincent, Lees-Marshment, Jennifer, Series Editor, Gillies, Jamie, editor, Raynauld, Vincent, editor, and Turcotte, André, editor
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- 2023
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4. The Position of the Roman Catholic Church in the (Second) Pink Tide in Latin America: A Comparative Analysis of Nicaragua and Brazil
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Milan Veselica
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roman catholic church ,left-wing politics ,nicaragua ,brazil ,'pink tide' ,latin america ,International relations ,JZ2-6530 ,Political science (General) ,JA1-92 - Abstract
The paper presents a comparative study of the position of the Roman Catholic Church in Nicaragua and Brazil in the conditions of the (new) leftist wave in Latin America. With the intention of understanding the complexity of the current situation and predicting future political behaviour, the author asks the following research questions: What does the attitude of the Roman Catholic Church towards the left-wing authorities in Latin America depend on? The aim of the paper is to explain the current position of the Roman Catholic Church in the so-called second pink tide and predict the development of church-state relations in these countries. The hypothesis is that the political behaviour of the Roman Catholic Church towards left-wing authorities, i.e., determination for confrontation or cooperation, is not conditioned only by the current situation on the ground but, above all, by the deeper institutional and ideological relationship between the church and the state. Using Daniel Philpott's theoretical framework, the author performs a comparative analysis of the relations between the Roman Catholic Church, i.e., national episcopal conferences, and leftist authorities in Nicaragua and Brazil. For this purpose, he uses the methods of content analysis (constitution and laws) and discourse analysis. He concludes that the relationship between the church and the state in Nicaragua represents conflictual differentiation, while in Brazil, consensual differentiation is at work. The author predicts that in the first case, the Roman Catholic Church, through the resistance of the regime, will strive for democracy, and in the second case, it will balance its (currently quite good) position to maintain its current position. Roman Catholic Church, left-wing politics, Nicaragua, Brazil, ‘pink tide’, Latin America.
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- 2023
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5. The left can meme.
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Greenwalt, Dustin A. and McVey, James Alexander
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RACISM ,SCHOLARS ,INVESTORS ,NATIONALISM ,TERRORISM - Abstract
While the use of memes as a persuasive strategy by the alt-right in the 2016 election gave rise to the notion that the left had been thoroughly outflanked in the meme wars, this project argues that the left can meme. Attending to the mimetic practices of anti-fascist, anti-capitalist and anti-racist online publics reminds scholars and practitioners that reactionary forces do not monopolize memetic persuasion. We are interested in how left-wing publics constitute themselves and gain adherents through memetic labour or the work of inventing, sharing, remixing and commenting on images, objects and slogans. This exploratory essay charts a nascent rhetorical research agenda on leftist meme culture, tracking previous interventions such as the anti-fascist meme Gritty and speculating on generative terrain for scholars interested in examining the memetic labour of the left. This essay posits that if we are interested in actualizing more democratic and egalitarian futures, providing assessments of left-wing publics' strategies might be one useful contribution to the struggle. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2023
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6. Response to Richard McIntyre on Shredding Paper.
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Hillard, Michael
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CLASS consciousness , *HISTORY of capitalism , *PAPER mills , *PAPER industry , *RIGHT & left (Political science) - Abstract
Influenced by the academic work of Stephen A. Resnick and Richard D. Wolff, the author and his close collaborator Richard McIntyre have spent four decades closely reading and contributing research to adjacent radical literatures on the empirical history of workers and capitalism. In this response to Richard McIntyre's review of Shredding Paper, the author reveals how his own research into the story of Maine's paper mills has developed since the 1980s, drawing out the class implications of the details embedded in a history that stretches back to the origins of Maine's paper industry. Hillard highlights the efficacy of reading capitalist histories of focusing on subsumed classes, i.e., a "volumes 2 and 3 [of Capital] approach," alongside the much more common "volume 1" methodology common to most radical political economy and labor history. For better and worse, this story has culminated in two generations of rural Mainers rejecting the sensibilities of neoliberal capitalism. This local class formation and particular consciousness of class contains many lessons for those who see capitalism problematically, but in the absence of an established U.S. Left, and given the cultural forces and propaganda acting upon them, this critical culture appears to have moved on. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2023
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7. EL DISCURSO POLÍTICO DEL ODIO EN LAS ÚLTIMAS ELECCIONES PRESIDENCIALES DE PERÚ: Un análisis desde los planteamientos del discurso crítico.
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GONZÁLEZ AGUILAR, HUGO
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HATE speech , *POLITICAL oratory , *RIGHT & left (Political science) , *POLITICAL parties , *PILLAGE , *HATE , *PRESIDENTIAL elections - Abstract
This study aims to analyze the hate speech in Peruvian politics during the last presidential elections. The methodology is qualitative, through the analysis of the candidates' discourse (Castillo and Fujimori). It is concluded that there is a polarization between both parties' sympathizers due to the controversy of the discourses that incite conflict. One position is against communism, which supposedly will lead to poverty, backwardness, and not a change forward; the other position states that if the opponent wins, she will continue corruption, and will not recover the resources that have been plundered from the country. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2023
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8. How should we analyse the patriotism of the populist Left: A response to Josep Lobera and Juan Roch.
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Custodi, Jacopo
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PATRIOTISM , *NATIONAL character , *RIGHT & left (Political science) , *NATIONALISM , *PERIODICAL articles - Abstract
In a recent article in this journal, Josep Lobera and Juan Roch formulate a thoughtful critique of scholarly works on the nationalist dimension of left‐wing populist discourses, and, in their analysis on Podemos, they engage especially with my works on the subject. They argue that not only do Podemos supporters express lower levels of national identification than the rest of the Spanish population, but also that, coherently with its electorate, Podemos avoids talking about issues related to Spanish identity and exhibits a non‐nationalist or even anti nationalist narrative. Contrarily, in my studies I found that Podemos has made extensive use of nationalist rhetoric. In this article I briefly respond to their critique, further clarifying the findings of my works and explaining why they do not match with the findings of Lobera and Roch. More broadly, I see this response as a chance to contribute to the further development of the recent and vibrant scholarly debate on the Left and its relation to nationalism. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2023
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9. O RELAȚIE DIFICILĂ. SOCIAL-DEMOCRAȚII, COMUNIȘTII ȘI CONFLICTELE POLITICE DIN ROMÂNIA POSTBELICĂ, 1944-1947.
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Copilaș, Emanuel
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COMMUNIST parties ,ABSORPTION ,ROMANIANS - Abstract
The Social Democratic Party and the Romanian Communist Party developed a very sinuous and difficult political relation after the events of August 1944. The origins of this relation were complicated since 1921, when the RCP separated itself from the SDP and adhered to the International Bolshevik. This essay briefly pinpoints some of the major divergencies between the two parts that culminated in 1946 with the split of the SDP and, in early 1948, with the dissapearance of the entire socialdemocratic movement through its absorption within the newly emerged Romanian Workers Party (RWP). [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2023
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10. Mad Activists and the Left in Ontario, 1970s to 2000
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Reaume, Geoffrey, Coleborne, Catharine, Series Editor, Smith, Matthew, Series Editor, Ellis, Robert, editor, Kendal, Sarah, editor, and Taylor, Steven J., editor
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- 2021
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11. Între anarhism şi social-democraţie. Influenţa anarhiştilor asupra clasei muncitoare din România până la 1914.
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BURLEC, Alin
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SOCIALISM ,CONSERVATISM ,LIBERALISM ,RIGHT & left (Political science) ,ARCHIVAL resources ,WORKING class ,ANARCHISM - Abstract
Starting from the second half of the XIX century, modern politics were introduced in Romania and besides conservatism and liberalism that became established doctrines, left wing ideas tried to gain a foothold too. The beginnings of socialism in Romania can be found in the 1870's and while eventually Marxism became the dominant leftist trend, at first there was a rather large pool of ideas brought by different groups like university students who studied abroad, those from Romanian universities and intellectuals form the Russian Empire who migrated to Romania. Those groups were the foundation for the first socialist movement that tried to spread socialism within the working class but the rather small number of anarchists were unable or unwilling to establish working class organizations. During the revival of socialism within the working class after 1900, anarchists like Panait Zosin and Panait Muşoiu tried to convince in embracing their ideas and by using archival sources and newspapers from the era we will try to better understand the motives behind the few workers who embraced anarchism. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2022
12. Introduction
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Shahibzadeh, Yadullah and Shahibzadeh, Yadullah
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- 2019
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13. Nationalism and populism on the left: The case of Podemos.
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Custodi, Jacopo
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NATIONALISM , *POPULISM , *UNPUBLISHED materials , *DISCOURSE analysis , *WELFARE state - Abstract
This article provides an empirical exploration of the relation between nationalism and populism on the left of the political spectrum. The Spanish party Podemos is a key case study for such an analysis, as it is a left‐populist actor that has made extensive use of nationalist rhetoric in its discourse. Through a discourse analysis on a corpus that includes speeches by Podemos leadership and primary data such as interviews and original unpublished material, this article studies the nationalist dimension of Podemos and its relation with the party's much‐discussed populism. The analysis shows that the Podemos leadership deliberately embeds nationalism in its populist strategy: Nationalism is a central element of the party's populist project and serves to advance an alternative form of national identification that challenges that of the right wing. Through a resignification of national pride and belonging, Podemos constructs an image of Spain that refers to an inclusive welfare state, to people's mobilization, and to a moral community that is not delimited by lingual or ethnic particularisms. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2021
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14. A Replication of Stern, West, and Schmitt (2014) Indicates Less False Consensus Among Liberals Than Conservatives, But No False Uniqueness.
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Blancha, John C., Alonzo, Michael, Ayoh, Christine, Blain, Kali, Espinoza, Leslie, Estrada, Marcos, Gillen, Jared, Marquez, Atziri, Miao, Joanne, Overbeck, Victoria, Slosky, Camryn, Srivatsan, Shruthi, Talley, Elise, and Tucker, Justin
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LIBERALS ,CONSERVATIVES - Abstract
Stern, West, and Schmitt (2014) reported that liberals display truly false uniqueness in contrast to moderates and conservatives who display truly false consensus. We conducted a close, preregistered replication of Stern et al.'s (2014) research with a large sample (N = 1,005). Liberals, moderates, and conservatives demonstrated the truly false consensus effect by overestimating ingroup consensus. False consensus was strongest among conservatives, followed by moderates, and weakest among liberals. However, liberals did score higher than moderates and conservatives on the need for uniqueness scale, which partially accounted for the difference in false consensus between liberals and conservatives. Overall, our data align with Stern et al.'s (2014) in demonstrating left-right ideological differences in the overestimation of ingroup consensus but fall short of illustrating a liberal illusion of uniqueness. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2021
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15. Between Vision and Scandal. Analysis of Bernie Sanders and Donald Trump’s Language During the American Presidential Primaries
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Bartosz Rydliński
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democracy ,socialism ,right-wing politics ,left-wing politics ,populism ,Political science - Abstract
The aim of this paper is to analyse the political language of Bernie Sanders and Donald Trump during the 2015/2016 presidential primaries in the United States. The narrative delivered by both candidates is interpreted from the perspective of political science in order to show not only its ideological and political content, but also the electoral significance. The author stresses not only the highly particular nature of the analyzed primaries of the Democratic and Republican Parties, but also discusses the character of the candidates themselves. Sanders and Trump not only represented the populist answer to the 8 years of presidency of Barack Obama (on the left and right side of the political spectrum respectively), but were also the main candidates of the American anti-establishment circles, which becomes very clear in the analysis of their political language.
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- 2019
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16. The Russian Revolution After One Hundred Years
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Graeme Gill
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cold war ,communism ,development models ,left-wing politics ,russian revolution ,socialism ,Social Sciences ,Europe (General) ,D900-2009 - Abstract
The Russian revolution was the defining episode of the twentieth century. It led to the transformation of Russia into one of the superpowers on the globe, but one that exhibited a development model that was both different from and a challenge to the predominant model in the West. The Soviet experiment offered a different model for organising society. This was at the basis of the way in which international politics in the whole post-second world war period was structured by the outcome of the Russian revolution. But in addition, that revolution helped to shape domestic politics in the West in very significant ways. All told, the revolution was of world historical and world shaping importance.
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- 2021
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17. Social Movements in 1980s Sweden : Contention in the Welfare State
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This open access book discusses the emergence and development, and in some cases also the disappearance, of social movements and activism in Sweden during the 1980s. Its aim is to nuance and problematize the image of the 1980s as unilaterally dominated by right-wing politics and neoliberalism, as well as the idea of a conflict-free Scandinavian model. The 1980s have often been described as a period when the influence of radical-left movements during the 1970s diminished. Instead, this book argues that the 1980s was a decade in which new radical social movements emerged in opposition to the prevalent political order, including the nuclear disarmament movement, the women's movement, anti-fascist movements, and the punk and environmental movements. The authors also demonstrate how issues such as squatting, nuclear resistance, rent strikes and the environment, included a variety of contentious collective action. Sweden, therefore, presents an interesting example of how resistance and conflict in a strong welfare state have been influenced by contentious social movements. Placing Sweden within the wider context of Scandinavia and Europe, this edited collection makes an important contribution to the history of social movements.
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- 2023
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18. Social Movements in 1980s Sweden
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Hill, Helena and Pinto, Andrés Brink
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Political activism ,Protest ,Swedish history ,Riots ,Scandinavian history ,Conflict ,Violence ,Nuclear disarmament ,Women's movement ,Anti-fascist movement ,Punk movement ,Environmental movement ,Militancy ,Left-wing politics ,Labour history ,Welfare state ,Rent strikes ,Squatting ,History of welfare ,thema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology::NH History::NHT History: specific events and topics::NHTB Social and cultural history ,thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JP Politics and government::JPA Political science and theory ,thema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology::NH History::NHD European history ,thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JP Politics and government::JPQ Central / national / federal government::JPQB Central / national / federal government policies - Abstract
This open access book discusses the emergence and development, and in some cases also the disappearance, of social movements and activism in Sweden during the 1980s. Its aim is to nuance and problematize the image of the 1980s as unilaterally dominated by right-wing politics and neoliberalism, as well as the idea of a conflict-free Scandinavian model. The 1980s have often been described as a period when the influence of radical-left movements during the 1970s diminished. Instead, this book argues that the 1980s was a decade in which new radical social movements emerged in opposition to the prevalent political order, including the nuclear disarmament movement, the women's movement, anti-fascist movements, and the punk and environmental movements. The authors also demonstrate how issues such as squatting, nuclear resistance, rent strikes and the environment, included a variety of contentious collective action. Sweden, therefore, presents an interesting example of how resistance and conflict in a strong welfare state have been influenced by contentious social movements. Placing Sweden within the wider context of Scandinavia and Europe, this edited collection makes an important contribution to the history of social movements.
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- 2023
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19. Historicizing the Left: A Review of Michał Siermiński 'Dekada Przełomu: polska lewica opozycyjna 1968-1980', Warszawa: Książka i Prasa 2016
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David Ost
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left-wing politics ,social movements ,civil society ,intellectual history ,Marxism ,anarchism ,Anthropology ,GN1-890 ,Ethnology. Social and cultural anthropology ,GN301-674 - Abstract
This review of Michał Siermiński Dekada przełomu: Polska lewica opozycyjna 1968–1980 [Transformative Decade: The Polish Oppositionist Left 1968–1980] critiques the author’s focus on ideas by offering a class-based understanding of the changes in Polish oppositionist politics, makes a case for the leftism of the “Civil Society” program of the 1970s, and argues that the old oppositionists’ discussions of the Church and “nation” were not violations of leftism but a way to frame the left so as to make it more acceptable to more people. The left faces very different tasks and problems now than it did in the 1970s or 1980s, which explains why Siermiński could write such a left-wing critique today. Yet while his book is extremely valuable, and the present left does certainly need a new program, it could still use some of the self-governing ideas of the 1970s in its current struggle against neoliberalism.
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- 2019
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20. "Down with 1989!": The Peculiar Right-Wing Backlash against 1968 in Poland.
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Ost, David
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RIGHT-wing extremism , *ANTISEMITISM , *HOLOCAUST, 1939-1945 , *LIBERALISM ,POLISH politics & government - Abstract
This article is part of the special cluster titled Generation '68 in Poland (with a Czechoslovak Comparative Perspective). Whereas much of the European right greeted the fiftieth anniversary of 1968 with a critique of its legacy, Poland's ruling Law and Justice party was largely silent, both because 1968 did not usher in a counterculture and because the protests were directed against the communist party. And yet the Law and Justice party detests the legacy of 1968, for three reasons: 1968 was shaped by the left, '68 activists and their values played a key role in the ensuing opposition, and because the right actually sympathizes with the communists of 1968, then dominated by nationalists. The right thus traditionally attacks the legacy of 1968 by attacking 1989 instead, when '68' ers played a central role and new left progressivism could finally emerge. That began changing early in 2018 when Poland's parliament passed its Holocaust-speech law banning calumny against the "Polish Nation." The resulting criticism brought 1968 back with a vengeance, with the right openly inhabiting the role of the national-communists, and beginning to attack Poland's 1968 directly. Shedding new light on the diverse meanings of 1968 and the relationship of the right to national communism, the piece ends by looking at developments through Bernhard and Kubik's theory of the politics of memory. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2019
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21. What’s Left?
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Berry, Craig, HAY, COLIN, Series editor, Payne, Anthony, Series editor, and Berry, Craig
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- 2016
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22. The Politics of Carnap’s Non-Cognitivism and the Scientific World-Conception of Left-Wing Logical Empiricism
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Christian Damböck
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Non-cognitivism ,Politics ,Multidisciplinary ,History and Philosophy of Science ,Philosophy ,Left-wing politics ,Empiricism ,Epistemology - Abstract
Based on a reconstruction of the development of Rudolf Carnap’s views from the Aufbau until the 1960s, this paper provides an account of the philosopher’s understanding of non-cognitivism, which is here seen as in line with the so-called scientific world-conception of left-wing logical empiricism. The starting point of Carnap’s conception is the claim that every human decision depends on certain attitudes that cannot be justified at a cognitive level, that are neither based on empirical facts nor logical reasoning. The key features of Carnap’s non-cognitivism, however, go beyond this general basis and involve several fundamentally moral commitments, such as a commitment toward science, and the embracing of moral attitudes as the result of a long-term process of rational discourse. I argue that these commitments contained in Carnap’s non-cognitivism/scientific world-conception establish a genuinely political worldview that is characteristic of left-wing logical empiricism and converges with socialism and democracy.
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- 2022
23. Do Politicians Discriminate against Constituents with an Immigration Background? Field Experimental Evidence from Germany
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Fabio Ellger and Jeyhun Alizade
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Sociology and Political Science ,media_common.quotation_subject ,Immigration ,Ethnic group ,Legislature ,language.human_language ,Representation (politics) ,German ,Politics ,Political science ,Political economy ,language ,Outgroup ,Left-wing politics ,media_common - Abstract
Immigration is changing the face of Western European electorates. Do politicians discriminate against the growing number of constituents with an immigration background? While ethnic distance can explain lower responsiveness to outgroup constituents, shared partisanship might mitigate discrimination. We examine this issue through an audit experiment with more than 1,500 MPs in fifteen German state legislatures. We find that politicians are eleven percentage points less likely to respond to a constituent’s email asking for a personal meeting if the sender has an immigrant background. Surprisingly, there is no difference in rates of discrimination between leftist and rightist parties. We also find evidence that signaling partisanship can mitigate the immigrant-background effect. Our results have important implications for the study of immigration and political representation in contemporary Western Europe.
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- 2022
24. Introduction to Gabriel García Márquez
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Bell-Villada, Gene H., López-Calvo, Ignacio, Bell-Villada, Gene H., book editor, and López-Calvo, Ignacio, book editor
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- 2021
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25. Alternative legacies of authoritarianism: Pro-dictator bias in ideology
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Sanghoon Kim-Leffingwell
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Successor cardinal ,Politics ,Sociology and Political Science ,media_common.quotation_subject ,Political economy ,Political science ,Authoritarianism ,Dictator ,Survey data collection ,Ideology ,Left-wing politics ,Dictatorship ,media_common - Abstract
How does an authoritarian past shape voters’ left-right orientation? Recent studies investigate “anti-dictator bias” in political ideology, where citizens in a former right-wing (left-wing) dictatorship may display a leftist (rightist) bias in their ideological self-identification. In this paper, I provide evidence for a “pro-dictator bias” where citizens hold ideological positions close to those of the dictator, depending on their experiences prior to transition. In countries with high economic growth under dictatorship and without violent ruling party ouster, authoritarian successors could continue mobilizing the popular base and invoke positive sentiment on the past in democratic elections. Such positive sentiment can facilitate individual ideological orientation close to the ideological label of the former dictatorship. I test this hypothesis by combining individual- and country-level data covering 1985 to 2018 from 48 countries. I demonstrate that voters in countries with high economic growth during dictatorship and without violent party exit are more likely to have pro-dictator bias in ideology. I further show that voters in former developmental states show pro-dictator bias from the history of economic growth and more peaceful transition. The findings emphasize the role of pre-transition features in shaping alternative legacies on voter attitudes in post-authoritarian societies.
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- 2022
26. Is the myth of left-wing authoritarianism itself a myth?
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Alivia Zubrod, Linus Chan, Lucian Gideon Conway, Van de Vliert E, and James D. McFarland
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conservatism ,right-wing authoritarianism ,History ,left-wing authoritarianism ,Authoritarianism ,ideology ,Left-wing politics ,Mythology ,Religious studies ,political psychology ,General Psychology - Abstract
Is left-wing authoritarianism (LWA) closer to a myth or a reality? Twelve studies test the empirical existence and theoretical relevance of LWA. Study 1 reveals that both conservative and liberal Americans identify a large number of left-wing authoritarians in their lives. In Study 2, participants explicitly rate items from a recently-developed LWA measure as valid measurements of authoritarianism. Studies 3-11 show that persons who score high on this same LWA scale possess the traits associated with models of authoritarianism (while controlling for political ideology): LWA is positively related to threat sensitivity across multiple areas, including general ecological threats (Study 3), COVID disease threat (Study 4), Belief in a Dangerous World (Study 5), and Trump threat (Study 6). Further, controlling for ideology, high-LWA persons show more support for restrictive political correctness norms (Study 7), rate African-Americans and Jews more negatively (Studies 8-9), and show more domain-specific dogmatism and attitude strength (Study 10). Study 11 reveals that the majority of the effects from Studies 3-10 hold when looking only within liberals, thus revealing these effects are about liberal authoritarianism. Study 12 uses the World Values Survey to provide evidence of Left-Wing Authoritarianism around the globe. Taken in total, this large array of triangulating evidence from 12 studies comprised of over 8,000 participants from the U.S. and over 66,000 participants world-wide strongly suggests that left-wing authoritarianism is much closer to a reality than a myth.
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- 2023
27. Culpability for Violence in the Congo: Lessons from the Crisis of 1960–1965
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Anna Curtenius Roosevelt
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Politics ,State (polity) ,Memoir ,Political science ,media_common.quotation_subject ,Ethnic group ,Western literature ,Human society ,Left-wing politics ,Criminology ,Structural violence ,media_common ,Culpability - Abstract
During Congo’s emergence from colonization in the mid-twentieth century, coups, political assassinations, and ethnic massacres took place that exacerbated inequality and insecurity in the region then and ever since. Some Western literature has essentialized these events, implying that they were a product of African people’s innate disorganization, divisiveness, leftism, and violence. Many of the writings keep to surface appearances rather than probing behind-the-scenes causalities. Evidence from archives, images, memoirs, and interviews, however, reveals a counterintuitive complexity in both the representation and perpetration of the direct and structural violence of the Congo crisis. Very different cultures, financing, technology, and interactions were characteristic of the western state agents who sponsored, organized, took part in, and often wrote about the coups and killings in Congo as opposed to the African functionaries with whom and against whom they worked. This chapter illustrates some of the evidence for these complex and contrasting patterns, offers alternative explanations, and outlines some lessons to be learned from the crisis.
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- 2023
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28. Dekada przełomu: Polska lewica opozycyjna 1968-1980.
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Ost, David
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CIVIL society , *INTELLECTUAL history , *SOCIAL movements , *PRACTICAL politics , *CHURCH , *ANARCHISM , *ABUSE of older people - Abstract
This review of Michał Siermiński Dekada przełomu: Polska lewica opozycyjna 1968-1980 [Transformative Decade: The Polish Oppositionist Left 1968-1980] critiques the author's focus on ideas by offering a class-based understanding of the changes in Polish oppositionist politics, makes a case for the leftism of the "Civil Society" program of the 1970s, and argues that the old oppositionists' discussions of the Church and "nation" were not violations of leftism but a way to frame the left so as to make it more acceptable to more people. The left faces very different tasks and problems now than it did in the 1970s or 1980s, which explains why Siermiński could write such a left-wing critique today. Yet while his book is extremely valuable, and the present left does certainly need a new program, it could still use some of the self-governing ideas of the 1970s in its current struggle against neoliberalism. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2019
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29. Looking Left at Antisemitism.
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Sunshine, Spencer
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ANTISEMITISM ,CONSPIRACY theories ,WHITE supremacy ,ZIONISM ,WESTERN society ,IDENTITY politics ,REPATRIATION ,CAPITAL financing - Abstract
The question of antisemitism inside of the Left--referred to as "left antisemitism"--is a stubborn and persistent problem. And while the Right exaggerates both its depth and scope, the Left has repeatedly refused to face the issue. It is entangled in scandals about antisemitism at an increasing rate. On the Western Left, some antisemitism manifests in the form of conspiracy theories, but there is also a hegemonic refusal to acknowledge antisemitism's existence and presence. This, in turn, is part of a larger refusal to deal with Jewish issues in general, or to engage with the Jewish community as a real entity. Debates around left antisemitism have risen in tandem with the spread of anti-Zionism inside of the Left, especially since the Second Intifada. Anti-Zionism is not, by itself, antisemitism. One can call for the Right of Return, as well as dissolving Israel as a Jewish state, without being antisemitic. But there is a Venn diagram between anti- Zionism and antisemitism, and the overlap is both significant and has many shades of grey to it. One of the main reasons the Left can't acknowledge problems with antisemitism is that Jews persistently trouble categories, and the Left would have to rethink many things--including how it approaches antiimperialism, nationalism of the oppressed, anti-Zionism, identity politics, populism, conspiracy theories, and critiques of finance capital--if it was to truly struggle with the question. The Left understands that white supremacy isn't just the Ku Klux Klan and neo-Nazis, but that it is part of the fabric of society, and there is no shortcut to unstitching it. Antisemitism is also woven into social relationships--having been part of Western society since at least the Middle Ages. But the Left doesn't understand that. The problem is not just limited to the open and coded conspiracy theories about Jews and Jewish collectivities that circulate on the Left. It also can be seen in how the complex conflict in Israel/Palestine is compressed into a blackand- white portrayal, complete with the demonization of one party-- and mixed with out-of-hand dismissals of the Jewish community's complaints about antisemitism. Any acceptable approach must start with suppressing antisemitic conspiracy theories and refusing to uncritically back antisemitic groups--something that currently isn't happening. If the Left can't even get to first base, it is undoubtedly part of the rising tide of antisemitism we are seeing today. But dealing with this would mean far more than just taking these obvious actions, and the only way to work these issues out is to wrangle with them directly. The Left would do well to live up to its own values of opposing oppression by taking antisemitism in its own ranks seriously. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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30. ‘We need to organise millions of people’ – how Alter Summit and DiEM25 struggle to create a European ‘modern prince’
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Bernd Bonfert
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geography ,Summit ,geography.geographical_feature_category ,Public Administration ,Sociology and Political Science ,Institutionalisation ,Movement (music) ,05 social sciences ,Geography, Planning and Development ,Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law ,050601 international relations ,0506 political science ,Austerity ,Political science ,Political economy ,050602 political science & public administration ,Left-wing politics ,Institute for Management Research ,General Economics, Econometrics and Finance ,Social movement - Abstract
Contains fulltext : 226843.pdf (Publisher’s version ) (Closed access) The European anti-austerity movement is generally associated with spawning leftist electoral projects, which exemplify the domestic institutionalization of activism. That the movement also generated a number of transnational coalitions with unusually broad and far-reaching ambitions remained somewhat under the radar. Projects like Alter Summit and DiEM25 seek to expand the anti-austerity movement’s struggle to the European level, by developing transnational organizational structures and challenging the political course of the EU. However, neither project managed to live up to its ambitions thus far and this article explores why. It argues that Alter Summit and DiEM25 represent attempts to create a transnational ‘modern prince’: a party-like organization that unites social movements around a counter-hegemonic strategy. While both managed to develop such strategies they also encountered challenges in facilitating democratic cohesion between transnational leaders and domestic supporters. This is partly the result of idiosyncratic shortcomings, but also reveals general challenges for transnational activism. 27 november 2020 16 p.
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- 2022
31. Becoming Korean: Japanese wives in the boundary formation of a leftist zainichi community
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Sayaka Chatani
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Politics ,Sociology and Political Science ,media_common.quotation_subject ,Political science ,Geography, Planning and Development ,Economic history ,Empire ,Left-wing politics ,Demise ,Boundary formation ,media_common - Abstract
Korean–Japanese marriages were common during and after Japan’s imperial rule of Korea. Following the Japanese Empire’s demise, however, Japanese wives in Korean families faced new political dynamic...
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- 2021
32. Post-Neoliberalism and External Financial Liberalization: Comparing Left-Wing and Right-Wing Populism
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Pedro Perfeito da Silva
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Populism ,Financial liberalization ,Public Administration ,Sociology and Political Science ,Right wing ,Political economy ,Political science ,Left-wing politics ,Post-neoliberalism - Abstract
This article aims to discuss to what extent populist parties with opposite ideological backgrounds have differed in their policies towards inherited external financial liberalization (EFL). Building upon a comparative case study centred on Argentina under Kirchnerism (2003–15) and Hungary under Viktor Orbán (since 2010), I conclude that both experiences led to a partial EFL reversal. However, reflecting their opposite ideological underpinnings, each subtype of populism opted to restrict a different dimension of EFL. Argentina's left-wing populism re-regulated cross-border capital flows, harming financial operators, foreign investors and primary exporters through capital controls and export surrenders. These interventionist capital account regulations were needed to shield expansionary macroeconomic policies that attended the interests of subordinate socioeconomic strata, fuelling the tension with financial markets and domestic economic elites. Conversely, Hungary's right-wing populism focused on the ownership structure of the banking sector, aiming to redistribute assets from foreign to domestic private banks and improve the credit conditions for native capitalists. In this case, even when resorting to macroeconomic heterodoxy, the maintenance of fiscal balance and price stability retained support from both foreign investors and domestic business groups, mitigating tensions derived from financial nationalism.
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- 2021
33. Kinship Killings, Taesal and Biologized State Violence During the Korean Civil War
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Brendan Wright
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History ,Government ,Sociology and Political Science ,media_common.quotation_subject ,Genocide ,Spanish Civil War ,State (polity) ,Political economy ,Political science ,Political Science and International Relations ,Kinship ,Left-wing politics ,Law ,media_common - Abstract
This article explores the underdeveloped linkages between the South Korean government’s mass killings of “leftist” opponents during the civil war era (1948–1953) and kinship killings. Specifically,...
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- 2021
34. WESTERN SCIENCE HUMILIATION AS A SYMPTOM OF THE WHOLE CIVILIZATION DECLINE
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Vladimir I. Kuznetsov and Alexander M. Gabovich
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Value (ethics) ,Civilization ,Political science ,Political economy ,media_common.quotation_subject ,Meritocracy ,Humiliation ,Legislature ,Left-wing politics ,Ideology ,Economic Justice ,media_common - Abstract
Some aspects of the radical change of value orientations in modern western science are considered. Influenced by leftist ideology and under the slogans of abstract justice, the leadership of European and North American institutions is trying to expand the presence of new members in the scientific and educational spheres on the quota basis, taking into account racial and gender rather than meritocratic characteristics (high-quality basic and university education level, persistence to obtain new knowledge, developed mental abilities in this area). It has been shown that the rapid legislative or illegal introduction of quotas for minorities instead of increasing their scientific level and well-being can only limit the recruiting of talented people of any gender or race into science and will result in the decline of the world science as a whole.
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- 2021
35. Digital participation of left-wing activists in Brazil: cultural events as a cement to mobilization and networked protest
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Guillaume Cabanac, Arthur Coelho Bezerra, Angelina Peralva, Pierre Ratinaud, Julien Figeac, Tristan Salord, Héloïse Prévost, Nathalie Paton, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Université Toulouse - Jean Jaurès (UT2J), Laboratoire Interdisciplinaire Solidarités, Sociétés, Territoires (LISST), École des hautes études en sciences sociales (EHESS)-Université Toulouse - Jean Jaurès (UT2J)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-École Nationale Supérieure de Formation de l'Enseignement Agricole de Toulouse-Auzeville (ENSFEA), École des hautes études en sciences sociales (EHESS), Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ), Recherche d’Information et Synthèse d’Information (IRIT-IRIS), Institut de recherche en informatique de Toulouse (IRIT), Université Toulouse 1 Capitole (UT1), Université Fédérale Toulouse Midi-Pyrénées-Université Fédérale Toulouse Midi-Pyrénées-Université Toulouse - Jean Jaurès (UT2J)-Université Toulouse III - Paul Sabatier (UT3), Université Fédérale Toulouse Midi-Pyrénées-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut National Polytechnique (Toulouse) (Toulouse INP), Université Fédérale Toulouse Midi-Pyrénées-Université Toulouse 1 Capitole (UT1), Université Fédérale Toulouse Midi-Pyrénées, Laboratoire d'Etudes et de Recherches Appliquées en Sciences Sociales (LERASS), Université Paul-Valéry - Montpellier 3 (UPVM)-Université Toulouse - Jean Jaurès (UT2J)-Université Toulouse III - Paul Sabatier (UT3), Université Fédérale Toulouse Midi-Pyrénées-Université Fédérale Toulouse Midi-Pyrénées, ANR-16-CE26-0014,LiSTIC,Liens socionumériques et Technologies (mobiles) de l'Information et de la Communication(2016), and ANR-11-LABX-0066,SMS/SSW,Structurations des mondes sociaux(2011)
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[SHS.SOCIO]Humanities and Social Sciences/Sociology ,Mobilization ,social media ,Materials Science (miscellaneous) ,digital politics ,16. Peace & justice ,General Business, Management and Accounting ,Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering ,[SHS]Humanities and Social Sciences ,activism ,Politics ,social movements ,[INFO.INFO-CY]Computer Science [cs]/Computers and Society [cs.CY] ,Political science ,Political economy ,[INFO]Computer Science [cs] ,Social media ,repositories of action politics ,Left-wing politics ,Business and International Management ,General Agricultural and Biological Sciences ,political participation ,Social movement - Abstract
International audience; This research explores how Brazilian activist groups participate in Facebook to coordinate their social struggles, based on a lexical analysis of publications on 529 pages, published between 2013 and 2017. These groups set up two main repertoires of action by mobilizing Facebook as an arena for challenging political action and a tool for coordinating their mobilizations. This research shows more specifically that artistic expression and the agenda of cultural events are central to these digital action repositories. Publications and conversations related to culture punctuate the ordinary exchange of information between activists, especially during the lulls of social struggles. They structure activist networks on a medium-term basis and contribute to the coordination of social movements by creating the conditions for occasional gatherings, transversal to different types of activism and to various social struggles.; Esta pesquisa explora como grupos ativistas brasileiros participam do Facebook para coordenar suas lutas sociais, a partir de uma análise lexical de publicações em 529 páginas, publicadas entre 2013 e 2017. Esses grupos configuram dois repertórios principais de ação ao mobilizar o Facebook como uma arena paradesafiar açõespolíticase como um instrumento de coordenação de suas mobilizações. Mais especificamente, a pesquisa mostraque a expressão artística e a agenda de eventos culturais são centrais para esses repositórios de ação digital. Publicações e conversas relacionadas à cultura pontuam a troca comum de informações entre ativistas, especialmente durante os períodos de menor mobilização no âmbito do ativismo.Eles estruturam redes de ativistas a médio prazo e contribuem para a coordenação dos movimentos sociais, criando as condições para encontros pontuais, transversais aos diferentes tipos de ativismo e para asvárias lutas sociais.
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- 2021
36. Claiming an Individual: Party, Family and the Politics of Memorialization in the Lebanese Civil War
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Dylan Baun
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Cultural Studies ,Memorialization ,History ,Politics ,Spanish Civil War ,Political science ,Political Science and International Relations ,Ethnography ,Media studies ,Microhistory ,Left-wing politics ,Communism - Abstract
Imad Nuwayhid (1944–1975) was a young Lebanese leftist intellectual, hotel employee, and fighter for the Lebanese Communist Party. Alongside thousands of others, he died during the first phase of t...
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- 2021
37. ProQuest Historical Newspapers: Leftist Newspapers and Periodicals
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Thomas J. Beck
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Political science ,Media studies ,Left-wing politics ,Newspaper - Abstract
ProQuest Historical Newspapers: Leftist Newspapers and Periodicals is a source for leftist publications (mostly newspapers), largely published in the twentieth century. Here, the user can access articles in PDF format from 156 national and international publications. Navigating this database and the documents therein can be easily done, but articles cannot be magnified or reduced, which may prove problematic with PDFs of old newspapers. Database content can be found through browsing or by using a basic and/or advanced search. The browse and basic search options here are understandable, but the advanced search is not self-explanatory and can possibly confuse the user. As a consequence, a new user of this database will probably benefit from instruction in its use from either the vendor or someone else familiar with this resource. However, when this search function is used properly it can produce numerous, on-point results for any query. The same is true of the basic search and browsing features, though they tend to produce larger lists of results that are less on-point than the advanced search. The vendor did not provide specific price information for this review, only indicating that pricing is determined by an institution's size and number of users. As this provides potential subscribers with very little insight into the cost of acquiring this resource, its advised that they contact ProQuest for a price quote tailored to their own institution. Its licensing agreement is the same as those used for all ProQuest databases and is average in its composition (though somewhat longer than average). The quality and quantity of content in this resource is notable, and it will certainly be of use to those looking for articles from leftist newspapers and periodicals. However, the definition of “leftist” here may be problematic for some users! Communist and Socialist publications are certainly available in this database, but those for Anarchists, Social Democrats, and other leftists are not.
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- 2021
38. Afro-Asian Internationalism: Leftist Solidarities during the Cold War
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Monica Popescu
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Linguistics and Language ,Internationalism (politics) ,Literature and Literary Theory ,Political science ,Cold war ,Economic history ,Left-wing politics ,Language and Linguistics - Published
- 2021
39. The Anti-Totalitarian Left between Morality and Politics
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Dick Howard
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Politics ,CITES ,Critical theory ,Aesthetics ,media_common.quotation_subject ,Political science ,Intellectual curiosity ,Appeal ,Telos ,Left-wing politics ,Social science ,Morality ,media_common - Abstract
Martin Jay introduces his study of Marxism and Totality with a “topography of Western Marxism” that concludes with some remarks about what he calls the “generation of 1968.”1 They were a “distinct generation of non-dogmatically leftist intellectuals,” in whose number he counts himself. Similarly, in the Introduction to a collection of his essays published two years later,2 he explains that although he wanted to move beyond Critical Theory to other projects, “I was drawn back into its orbit.” The reason for this continued appeal was first of all intellectual curiosity, because he was “never certain that Marxism, Western or otherwise, offered all the answers.” But there was a political appeal as well, since he thereby avoided the deadening experience of a “deradicalization” when the excitement of the initial discoveries gave way to a “theoretical and practical” loss of confidence. That changed mood, he goes on to say, was “evident” in my own book published in 1977, The Marxian Legacy, and “apparent” also in articles in the journal Telos. In contrast, Martin Jay cites the volume that Karl Klare and I had published only five years earlier as part of “a burgeoning awareness of the richness as well as the inadequacies of a tradition of thought.”3 Could it have been simply what he calls the “disheartening events of the 1970s” that explains the changed intellectual landscape?4
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- 2022
40. Agents of Representation: The Organic Connection between Society and Leftist Parties in Bolivia and Uruguay
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Verónica Pérez Bentancur, Santiago Anria, Rafael Piñeiro Rodríguez, and Fernando Rosenblatt
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Sociology and Political Science ,media_common.quotation_subject ,Democracy ,Representation (politics) ,Connection (mathematics) ,Incentive ,Political economy ,Political science ,Political Science and International Relations ,Left-wing politics ,Product (category theory) ,Function (engineering) ,Social Sciences (miscellaneous) ,media_common - Abstract
Parties are central agents of democratic representation. The literature assumes that this function is an automatic consequence of social structure and/or a product of incentives derived from electoral competition. However, representation is contingent upon the organizational structure of parties. The connection between a party and an organized constituency is not limited to electoral strategy; it includes an organic connection through permanent formal or informal linkages that bind party programmatic positions to social groups’ preferences, regardless of the electoral returns. This article analyzes how the Movimiento al Socialismo (Movement toward Socialism, MAS) in Bolivia and the Frente Amplio (Broad Front, FA) in Uruguay developed two different forms of relationship with social organizations that result from the interplay of historical factors traceable to the parties’ formative phases and party organizational attributes. Party organizational features that grant voice to grassroots activists serve as crucial mechanisms for bottom-up incorporation of societal interests and demands.
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- 2021
41. Sustainable development goals, rule of law and public policy: implications for the traditional family model
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Armando Alvares Garcia Júnior
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Sovereignty ,State (polity) ,Political science ,media_common.quotation_subject ,Welfare economics ,Refugee ,Immigration ,Public policy ,Left-wing politics ,Law ,Economic Justice ,media_common ,Rule of law - Abstract
espanolCon base en el orden publico internacional como expresion de la soberania nacional,gobiernos con desviaciones autoritarias estan realizando reformas constitucionales, penales, etc. con elproposito de preservar los valores inalienables de sus Estados y las raices cristianas de sus sociedades(modelo de matrimonio y familia tradicional). Para eso, con base en la concepcion vertical del ODS16 (en que los ambitos paz y justicia se supeditan al ambito instituciones solidas), buscan fortalecerel Estado mediante la gradual anulacion de sus “factores de desintegracion”: inmigrantes y refugiadosmusulmanes, miembros de la comunidad LGBTI, politicos de izquierda, periodistas independientes y lapropia UE (valores, legislacion y su incipiente orden publico). La investigacion analiza este problemaque afecta a la familia y sus derechos. EnglishBased on international public policy as an extension of national sovereignty, governments with authoritarian deviations are reforming their constitutions, criminal laws, etc. with the aim of preserving the inalienable values of their States and the Christian roots of their societies (traditional marriage and family model). For this purpose, basing on the vertical conception of SDG 16 (in which the areas of peace and justice are subordinated to the area of strong institutions), they seek to strengthen the state by gradually annulling its “disintegrating factors”: Muslim immigrants and refugees, members of the LGBTI community, leftist politicians, independent journalists and the EU itself (values, legislation and its incipient public policy). The research analyzes this problem affecting the family and its rights .
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- 2021
42. The antifascist boxing body: Political somatics in boxe popolare
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David Brown, Lorenzo Pedrini, G Navarini, Pedrini, L, Brown, D, and Navarini, G
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Cultural Studies ,medicine.medical_specialty ,Somatics ,Flourishing ,boxing ,techniques of the body ,Gender studies ,Hexis ,Style (visual arts) ,Politics ,Grassroots ,political belonging ,Arts and Humanities (miscellaneous) ,hexi ,Anthropology ,SPS/08 - SOCIOLOGIA DEI PROCESSI CULTURALI E COMUNICATIVI ,medicine ,Habitus ,far left ,Left-wing politics ,Sociology ,habitu - Abstract
Palestre popolari (‘people’s gyms’) are flourishing in contemporary Italy. These gyms are run by leftist grassroots organizations (ANTIFA), which promote an alternative boxing style: boxe popolare (‘people’s boxing’). Drawing on a three-year ethnography, this article focuses on body usages in boxe popolare. Connecting Mauss with Bourdieu, the study elucidates that the ways in which bodies are deployed in boxe popolare shape a scheme of dispositions – mutualism, combat, engagement and conviviality – forming an antifascist pugilistic habitus. A leftist physicality is hence incorporated as an interpolation of political dispositions with virtues of prowess, self-control and toughness, instilled in boxe popolare bodies regardless of their gender identity. This emergent leftist physicality becomes bodily hexis as soon as it is displayed publicly by the fighters, both men and women, as the legitimate representation of the political community to which they belong. The study ends highlighting implications for research about political somatics.
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- 2021
43. 'The Fighting Made Me Feel Alive': Women’s Motivations for Engaging in Left-wing Terrorism: A Thematic Analysis
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Daniel Koehler
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Sociology and Political Science ,Political science ,Political Science and International Relations ,Terrorism ,Gender studies ,Left-wing politics ,Thematic analysis ,Safety, Risk, Reliability and Quality ,Safety Research - Abstract
Even though it is well documented that women have had, and continue to have, much more prominent positions and stronger participation in violent left-wing extremism and terrorism compared to other ...
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- 2021
44. Left-wing Regimes in Contemporary Latin America: Theoretical Concepts and Political Practice
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Zbigniew Iwanowski
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Contemporary Latin ,Politics ,Political economy ,Political science ,Left-wing politics - Abstract
The article examines contemporary approaches to the interpretation of left-wing political regimes and offers his own typology. Particular attention is paid to the fluctuations of the political pendulum in the region in the first decades of this century, the reasons for the successes and failures of the left forces. The author analyzes the ideology and practical activity of the center-left and radical left governments and comes to the conclusion that the persisting and even deepening disagreements between them are associated not only with the interpretation of the socialist ideas, the recognition of various forms of property, the role of the state in the economy, its social functions and foreign policy orientation, but also with the peculiarities of electoral legislation, ensuring political pluralism, forms of political participation and respect for human rights and civil liberties.
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- 2021
45. ENGLISH: Warm and Cold Sources of Conflict and Conflict Resolution in Abrahamic/Semitic Traditions
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Syeda Hoor ul Ain and Rashid Ahmad
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Political radicalism ,Religiosity ,Militant ,Political science ,Conflict resolution ,Political religion ,General Medicine ,Left-wing politics ,Religious studies ,Semitic languages ,Chauvinism - Abstract
All the three Abrahamic religions are considered as the monotheistic sources of violence around the globe. The Bible, both the Old and the New Testaments are criticized for encouraging radical religiosity, chauvinism and othering leading to violence in the name of religion while the Quran is blamed for promoting highly political religion which encourages violence in the name of Jihad. Both the militant movements affiliated to these religions and their leftist critics cherry-pick the verses of these holy books and demonstrate them as the religious grounds of radicalism leading to violent extremism. The current endeavor highlights such “warm” sources from the main religious books of these religions which can be/are used to promote violence and become sources of conflicts. It is opined that such sources are highly contextual, and not meant to be generalized in every situation. On the other hand, “cold” sources from these religious books are also unearthed as the timeless teachings of these religions which are both eternal and meant to be propagated to general public for the nurturing the society on peaceful and cooperative grounds so that they avoid conflicts in the first place and even if conflicts do arise, resolve them nobly.
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- 2021
46. Marseille, city of refuge: international solidarity, American humanitarianism, and Vichy France (1940-1942)
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Emilien Tortel
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Refugees ,History ,Internationalism (politics) ,World War II ,Sociology and Political Science ,Refugee ,Context (language use) ,Historiography ,History (General) ,F1201-3799 ,Solidarity ,Nationalism ,History and Philosophy of Science ,Anthropology ,Political science ,D1-2009 ,Economic history ,Left-wing politics ,Latin America. Spanish America ,Marseille - Abstract
Anchored in the port of Marseille, this article studies encounters between international solidarity, American humanitarianism, and Vichy France’s nationalism in times of war and exile. Being the main free harbour in France after the country’s defeat against Germany in the spring of 1940, Marseille saw hundreds of thousands of refugees seeking refuge and exile on its shores. This massive flux gave rise to a local internationalism of humanitarian and solidarity networks bonded by an anti-fascist ideology. American humanitarians, diplomats, and radical leftist militants shaped this eclectic internationalism by providing crucial support for European refugees escaping the Nazi-backed state repression in France. Using the local archives of the department of Bouches-du-Rhône, this paper analyses how these actors and their ideologies met in Marseille and interacted with or against Vichy France’s nationalism. In the end, the extended historiography on refugees, American humanitarianism, solidarity networks, and French nationalism will be used to analyse global ideologies in a local context during the Second World War.
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- 2021
47. Between Populist Anti-intellectualism and Leftist Messianism: An Interview with Bruno Chaouat
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Bruno Chaouat
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Sociology and Political Science ,media_common.quotation_subject ,Critical race theory ,General Social Sciences ,Antisemitism ,Scholarship ,Literary theory ,Anti-Americanism ,Anti-intellectualism ,Ideology ,Left-wing politics ,Sociology ,Religious studies ,media_common - Abstract
In this interview, Bruno Chaouat discusses Donald Trump, anti-Americanism, the tradition of laicite, the preoccupation with safe spaces in American higher education, the impact of French literary theory on the American academy, the reception of Critical Race Theory in France, French intellectual antisemitism, and other topics. He criticizes recent developments in French and American theory while also highlighting some of the promising new developments in French literary scholarship as practiced both in France and the US. Throughout the interview, Chaouat articulates the shortcomings of current ideologies on the Right and Left and the need for independent thinking about contemporary social problems.
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- 2021
48. Modernization Losers’ Revenge? Income Mobility and Support for Right- and Left-Wing Populist Parties in Germany
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Karin Kurz, Jörg Hartmann, and Holger Lengfeld
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Sociology and Political Science ,Political economy ,Political science ,05 social sciences ,050602 political science & public administration ,050109 social psychology ,0501 psychology and cognitive sciences ,Left-wing politics ,Modernization theory ,0506 political science - Abstract
Against the backdrop of rising support for right- and left-wing populist parties in Europe, a long-standing argument has been that the more vulnerable strata of society are deprived by structural economic change as well as increasing social inequality and express their grievances by voting for radical and populist parties. Previous research has tested the thesis either based on cross-sectional data and vague proxies for past income developments or used objective short-term measures of income changes. In this study, we propose a more thorough test using longitudinal data and measures of objective relative deprivation, objective absolute deprivation, and subjective deprivation. Using SOEP data for 2016, our results show little support that those with lower incomes identify more with the populist right-wing AfD in Germany. Furthermore, we find no evidence that objectively falling behind is associated with more support for the AfD and the populist left-wing party die Linke among the less well off. Rather, support for the AfD is highest among the less well-off with stable incomes and the less well-off who perceive their incomes as having been unstable. For die Linke, support is highest among the less well-off who experienced absolute income gains and the less well-off who perceive their incomes as having been upwardly or downwardly mobile.
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- 2021
49. What is 'Restrained' by the katechon? The Finitude of the State in Conservative and Socialist Thought
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Ilya Budraitskis
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History ,media_common.quotation_subject ,Philosophy ,Religious studies ,Perfection ,Politics ,History and Philosophy of Science ,State (polity) ,Secularization ,Marxist philosophy ,Left-wing politics ,Political philosophy ,Form of the Good ,media_common ,Law and economics - Abstract
The concept of katechon (“that which withholds”), essential to both the theological tradition and modern political philosophy, originates in Second Thessalonians by Paul the Apostle. This withholding force which resists the coming of the end times has often been identified with the Roman Empire (and later with the Christian imperial state), the latter seen as a protected space that enabled the spread of the Good Tidings. This mission of containment, on the one hand, endowed the state with a sacred character, but on the other, it marked the state's finitude and imperfection. By withholding time, the katechon does not remove but preserves contradictions and heterogeneity, accepting its incompleteness as the burden of its own mission. In its secularized form, the restraining state conceives of society as an antagonistic space of struggle and conflict, and the function of political power is linked to the establishment of a temporal equilibrium with historically contingent and relative forms. In conservative thought, the katechon state guards society from unifying equality and rationalization, and individuals from the illusion of perfection and moral harmony. The understanding of the state as a force that rises above the disparate elements of society and preserves it against its inherent chaos was also at the core of the Marxist concept of the state. This article, based on a wide range of authors (T. Hobbes, K. Marx, K. Schmitt, K. Leontiev, D. Agamben) will consider conservative and leftist interpretations of the state, which accept and develop the idea of katechon and its interpretations not directly connected with the concept of state power.
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- 2021
50. Politicians 'Stay Home'
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Sara Garcia Santamaria
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Populism ,Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) ,Political science ,Pandemic ,Social media ,Gender studies ,Left-wing politics - Abstract
This paper analyses the intimate space of politicians at home during lockdown through their personal Instagram accounts, using both live stories (which I have been saving daily), the pictures and videos they post and the accompanying text. In order to do so, it will focus on two young female politicians who have become iconic for left-wing movements around the world. They are Ada Colau, Mayor of Barcelona (Spain), and Alessandria Ocasio-Cortez, representative for New York’s 14th congressional district (USA). As previous political outsiders who are deeply involved in activism and belong to what some will call a left-wing populist wave, AOC and Colau interact with their followers in “an authentic way”, often posting very intimate and apparently uncurated images of their daily life. The goal of the paper is to examine how they construct authenticity and connect with their constituencies during the COVID-19 lockdown through a qualitative visual rhetorical analysis.
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- 2021
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