NEW FROM VERSO
FOR A LEFT POPULISM
By Chantal Mouffe
—————
What is the “populist moment” and what does it mean for the left?
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—the people.
In this new book the leading political thinker Chantal Mouffe proposes a new way to define left populism. The political is to be constructed by establishing a political frontier that divides society into two camps, mobilising an “underdog” against “those in power”. Populism, far from being a perversion of democracy, constitutes the most adequate political force to recover and reconstitute itself.
This new politics must recognise its partisan character. This presents itself as more than the image of demagoguery and emotive rabbles seen across our media. Furthermore, it is an urgent struggle, because the future will be formed by the kind of populism that emerges victorious from the conflict against the current threats of post-politics and post-democracy.
—————
Reviews
“Argues in favor of leftist populism as a means to combat both elitist, neoliberal technocracy and reactionary, xenophobic versions of populism.”
– Publishers Weekly
—————
Hardback: June 2018 / 9781786637550 / £9.99
FOR A LEFT POPULISM is available to buy on the Verso website at 20% off: https://www.versobooks.com/books/2748-for-a-left-populism
—————
Visit Verso’s website for information on our upcoming events, new reviews and publications and special offers: http://www.versobooks.com
Sign up for the Verso mailing list:
https://www.versobooks.com/users/sign_up
Follow us online:
Facebook: https://facebook.com/VersoBks
Twitter: http://twitter.com/VersoBooks
Instagram: http://instagram.com/versobooks
Goodreads: https://www.goodreads.com/user/show/18970808-verso-books
