Taking the People vs. Power Bloc Antagonism Further: On Laclau’s Populist Reason and European Left’s Political Strategy
Taking the People vs. Power Bloc Antagonism Further: On Laclau’s Populist Reason and European Left’s Political Strategy

Summary/Abstract: The intensified and clearly evident crisis of the capitalist world-system during the last decade gave rise to an increased number of various anti-systemic movements and sentiments, thus setting the main task for the contemporary European Left in terms of articulating this oppositional potential into a viable emancipatory politics. Hence, the leftist political strategy - mainly the one expounded by Podemos and, to a lesser extent, by Syriza - has focused on populism in the sense that late Ernesto Laclau has given this term.

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