FOR A LEFT POPULISM

Populism, today, is the expression of a crisis of liberal-democratic politics. It is more than an ideology or a political regime. It is a way of doing politics that can take various forms but emerges when one aims at building a new subject of collective action - t he people. In this new book the leading political thinker Chantal Mouffe proposes a new way to define left populism. The political i s to be constructed by establishing a political frontier that divides society into two camps, mobilising an 'underdog' against 'thos e in pow...[Read more]