Review of Eliane Glaser’s Anti-Politics
Understanding Left and Right’s differing relationship to politics would help clarify Glaser’s conundrums. She repeatedly sets up oppositions she claims to be irresolvable – they’re not.
Tag: antipolitics
Brazil’s Anti-Politics Election
My Brazil election preview in Jacobin: https://jacobinmag.com/2018/09/brazil-election-bolsonaro-lula-haddad-boulos-corruption The election – and general political conjuncture – is polarized, fragmented, and corrupt. Here’s an excerpt on polarization: The election’s main polarization, then, is between the PT and Bolsonaro. To some it may look like a fight between two extremes. Bolsonaro poses as an authoritarian outsider who will wash … Continue reading Brazil’s Anti-Politics Election
Political elite has lost grip, left can’t take advantage
I was on The Real News this week discussing a(nother) mad week in Brazil. There are effectively four major threads to anti-corruption charges now, two against Temer/PMDB and two against Lula/PT. I won’t recap them here but instead tease out some deeper implications of what I said on the programme. (For a good summary, Stephanie Nolen … Continue reading Political elite has lost grip, left can’t take advantage
What’s the opposite of these PPE/Énarque/Beltway weirdos?
On Populism and ‘Honest Politicians’ Corbyn has been praised for being an honest man, that rarity — an authentic politician. Yet his lack of success has brought criticism (and not just from the right of his own party and other centrists) for not ‘playing the game’. So which is it? Neither. The surprise upsurge – … Continue reading What’s the opposite of these PPE/Énarque/Beltway weirdos?
The List Lands: Who can reconstitute democracy after this bombshell?
By 6 PM on the night of Tuesday 11 April, the plenaries of Brazil’s house and senate were empty. A long-promised political holocaust had arrived. Supreme Court Justice Edson Fachin had just authorised corruption investigations into nearly a third of interim president Temer’s cabinet, and a similar proportion of senators. The list to be investigated … Continue reading The List Lands: Who can reconstitute democracy after this bombshell?
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