The Radical Right examines five cases of political hatred from the margins of global capital: Turkey under Erdogan, Hungary under Orbán, India under Modi, the Philippines under Duterte, and Brazil under Bolsonaro. With probing insights it asks, how did these rightwing figures come to power? What strategies of legitimation do they employ? What resistances do they face?
The authors use case studies of individual countries to lay the foundation for a systematic comparison that illuminates the key dynamics of a novel political form. By analyzing each regime's response to the Covid-19 pandemic further light is shed on their methods in a time of crisis. The book closes by considering the Trump presidency, and how we can understand these leaders by comparison to their pronounced counterpart in the Global North—and vice-versa.
More than a mere collection of texts commissioned from specialists, The Radical Right is the result of a two-year-long collective endeavor by an international taskforce assembled to respond to a global phenomenon of far reaching significance.
Publication date: November 24, 2023
Acknowledgements
List of Figures and Tables
Notes on Contributors
1 Introduction The Radical Right: Politics of Hate on the Margins of Global Capital
Cecilia Lero
2 Right-Wing Authoritarianism in Turkey
Sefika Kumral
3 Global Crisis and the Realignment of Eastern European Capitalist Class Alliances The Case of Hungarian Illiberalism
Tamás Gerőcs and Ágnes Gagyi
4 Modi’s New India Hatred, Dispossession, Desperation
Aparna Sundar
5 Can Democracies Die Democratically? Rodrigo Duterte in the Philippines
Cecilia Lero
6 Understanding the Myth Bolsonaro’s Brazil
Fabio Luis Barbosa dos Santos
7 Comparisons
Fabio Luis Barbosa dos Santos
8 The Pandemic as an Opportunity
Daniel Feldmann, Cecilia Lero, Devika Misra, Ágnes Gagyi, Tamás Gerőcs and Ilhan Can Ozen
9 It Can’t Happen Here Trump Viewed from the Margins
Daniel Geary
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