For me, what binds these three movements -- BLM, #StopTheSteal, and
#Gamestop -- together is not that they are populist (though, depending
on your definition, they might be), but that they advance radical
institutional critiques of the main pillars of contemporary society: the
police, democracy, an
Florian I totally enjoy debating with you and there is not an ounce of
aggression or one-upsmanship intended here (nor taken, as far as I can see).
So after this precaution let me point out that BLM is a Black -led
movement, but not a minority one. Like the Civil Rights movement before
it, but to
>
> Finally, why not call BLM populist?
>
BLM probably fits Laclau/Mouffe's definition and notion of populism as
agonistic. But since the movement is reclaiming minority rights, I don't
think it fits Müller's and Mudde's definition of populism as positioning a
majority of "the good people" against
On Thu, Feb 4, 2021 at 4:33 AM Florian Cramer wrote:
>
> Turns out that one of the big winners is (drumroll): a hedge fund, Senvest
> Management,
> which made a profit of $700 million from selling Gamestop shares that it
> had cheaply
> acquired in September to Gamestop/Robinhood players:
>
> Abs
> Le 4 févr. 2021 à 11:32, Florian Cramer a écrit :
>
> Postscript to Jens Berger's article that I had posted yesterday:
>
> > This leads to the overlooked question: Who did sell the shares to the hedge
> > funds and the hobby speculators during the turmoil? Were it professionals
> > like ['Big
Postscript to Jens Berger's article that I had posted yesterday:
> This leads to the overlooked question: Who did sell the shares to the
hedge
> funds and the hobby speculators during the turmoil? Were it professionals
> like ['Big Short' investor Michael] Burry, [Elon] Musk and the Winkelvoss
> b
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Original to:
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2021/feb/03/gamestop-platform-populism-uber-airbnb-wework-robinhood-democracy
(bwo Eduard de Jong Frz, with thanks)
Why the GameStop affair is a perfect example of 'platform populism'
Evgeny Morozov, The Guardian Wed 3 Feb 2021
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