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orangecrush

(22,303 posts)
Thu Jan 16, 2025, 11:31 PM 9 hrs ago

MAGA in a nutshell

Or sack, if you prefer.

"As Šefik Tatlić claims in an article that reactionary populism is a discourse that helps capitalism to reproduce itself as an ideologically potent system of power and to normalize its necropolitical matrix of organization of rule, Judith Butler defends opposite. According to her interview, there are forms of right-wing populism that we are seeing now that object to laws that were securing equality between men and women, laws against racism, laws that permit migration and even affirm an ethnically and religiously heterogeneous population. And that kind of reactionary populism wants to restore an earlier state of society, driven by nostalgia or a perceived loss of privilege. She said “They want to take down state power for the loss of their former world.”

https://www.populismstudies.org/Vocabulary/reactionary-populism/

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MAGA in a nutshell (Original Post) orangecrush 9 hrs ago OP
Erich Fromm wrote about this extensively in "Escape From Freedom". Worth reading. nt The Unmitigated Gall 9 hrs ago #1
Thanks orangecrush 8 hrs ago #2
Excellent. And they think they will benefit/profit from their side being on top. Screw that. Silent Type 8 hrs ago #3
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