Acland, Charles R.
The Longest Revolution, or Notes on Stuart Hall, Antonio Gramsci, and Authoritarian Populism
This article examines contemporary right-wing populist movements and argues that a dominant concept describing such movements - "authoritarian populism" - does not provide the analytical advantage that it might. The current usage of that term privileges populism as primarily authoritarian. In contrast, Stuart Hall's development of the concept in the 1970s proposed that "authoritarian populism" was a way of explaining political conjunctures. As initially conceived, "authoritarian populism" did not presume to convey, in advance of analysis, the politics of popular movements. Hall's critiques were efforts to reinvigorate the Gramscian analysis of cultural politics, while the contemporary usage of "authoritarian populism" evacuates the Gramscian dimension. The article concludes with a call for explicit engagement in the cultural political arena during this time of authoritarian apology in order to take responsibility for the construction of an effective and progressive popular historic bloc.
| Lingua | eng |
| Nomi |
[autore] Acland, Charles R. |
| Soggetti |
Hall, Stuart
Populismo
Hall, Stuart
populism |
