Reactionary Democracy
Reactionary Democracy Democracy must be anti-racist. Any less is reactionary.Democracy is not necessarily progressive, and will only be if we make it so. Any less is cowardly. The resurgence of…
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Reactionary Democracy
Democracy must be anti-racist. Any less is reactionary.Democracy is not necessarily progressive, and will only be if we make it so. Any less is cowardly.
The resurgence of racism, populism and the far right is not the result of popular demands as we are often told. What Mondon and Winter call 'reactionary democracy' is the use of the concept of democracy and its associated understanding of the power to the people (demos cratos) for reactionary ends. It is rather the logical conclusion of the more or less conscious manipulation by the elite of the concept of 'the people' and the working class to push reactionary ideas.
These narratives place racism as a popular demand, rather than as something encouraged and perpetuated by elites, thus exonerating those with the means to influence and control public discourse through the media in particular. This in turn has legitimised the
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