Faguet, Jean-Paul 
ORCID: 0000-0002-7188-0098
(2024)
The age of left-right politics is over: far-right is the wrong label for Trump.
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Abstract
Politics in the West is fundamentally changing. The likes of Donald Trump, Marine Le Pen and Germany’s AfD are often seen as a rising ‘Far Right’. This is wrong, argues Jean-Paul Faguet, because it implies that these politicians exist on the same Left-Right axis that has long defined Western politics. That axis is increasingly irrelevant. The traditional working class is disappearing: most people, from office workers to Uber drivers, self-identify more as individualistic entrepreneurs than part of a working-class. The real political struggle – in which Trump and co. are already engaged – is to define a new axis of political competition, which reflects society’s real dividing lines.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Official URL: | https://iai.tv/articles-proxy |
| Divisions: | International Development |
| Subjects: | J Political Science > JC Political theory H Social Sciences > HM Sociology |
| Date Deposited: | 21 Nov 2024 11:36 |
| Last Modified: | 11 Dec 2024 21:29 |
| URI: | http://eprints.lse.ac.uk/id/eprint/126123 |
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