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Anton Jäger is a doctoral student at Cambridge University.
Left populism is the new idiom of radical politics worldwide. It emerged as the answer to the problem of a weak and disorganized working class — but despite its electoral successes, that class remains weak and disorganized.
Critics of populism lament the rise of “emotion-driven” politics. But instead of asking why politics has become so “irrational,” we should ask why people are so angry in the first place.
“Post-work” Marxism aims to liberate us from the coercion of wage labor. But without a program for reorganizing production, it can only return us to the tyranny of the market.
Britain’s leading liberal newspaper has set out on a mission to define and defeat “populism.” It has not gone well.
Many on today’s Left seek to abolish work. But the goal of socialism is to transform it.
Left populism might be working in practice — but does it work in theory? A review of Chantal Mouffe’s latest salvo in the “populism wars.”
Populist symbolism can be powerful — but we can’t drop the old language of class.
It's the transatlantic commentariat’s favorite political put-down. It’s also historically illiterate.