Keynesianism is unsustainable: a critical analysis

Keynesianism is unsustainable: a critical analysis

With the dislocation of the neoliberal normality by the COVID-19 pandemic, one has witnessed attempts by influential organisations and specific sections of the intellectual elite to resuscitate dormant ideas. Sudden support for Keynesianism is a good example of this. Instead of wholeheartedly accepting the post-pandemic plans being relayed by powerful groups, the Left needs to … Read more

Right-wing populism’s Orwellian tactics

Right-wing populism is quickly emerging as a new dominant political discourse. It's radically reconstituting the uneven battlefield to gain hegemony.

Right wing populism is quickly emerging as a new dominant political discourse. It is radically re-constituting the uneven field of politics on which ideological battles are fought. Right-wing demagogues use a diversified repertoire of rhetorical tools to not only temporarily acquire dominance but to disaggregate frozen beliefs and re-configure them. To analyse this process of re-constitution, this article uses the vocabulary provided by George Orwell in his seminal book “1984”.

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