Review:
For a Left Populism. Chantal Mouffe. New York: Verso, 2019. 112pp.
$16.95 pb.
For many organizations across the left-spectrum, the recession of 2010
was an opportunity. A host of figureheads, from David Harvey to Tariq
Ali, began to push for alternative solutions amidst the popular
movements in Spain, Greece, United States, Tunisia, Bahrain, Venezuela,
Ecuador, Bolivia, and elsewhere. These alternatives were embodied in
opposition not only to establishment politics but also the practice of
politics itself. The new parties that emerged from these movements – in
particular, Podemos in Spain, La France Insoumise in France, Syriza in
Greece, as well as new progressive factions of the Labour Party in Great
Britain and the Democratic Party in the US – were left to oppose the
status-quo of neoliberalism, while also rejecting the possibility of
building a similar model of Soviet socialism or any of the various
political alternatives that shaped the global south during the last
century. With the latter, there were the mixed experiences of socialism
across Eastern Europe; with the former, the stale and lifeless form of
politics akin to what Chantal Mouffe calls ‘post-democracy.’ However,
what these new parties have taken for alpine-clarity has been a
half-baked Jacobinism, embodying more pre-Marxism than the post-Marxism
they claim to practice.[1]
https://houstonreviewofbooks.com/2021/01/04/pre-marxism-in-the-last-instance-a-review-of-chantal-mouffes-for-a-left-populism/
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