USA, Israel, France: how democratic institutions become Trojan horses for the far right
Résumé
The form of politics made up of fake news, manipulations of all kinds, untimely reversals and all-out manipulation of the symbolic has spread like wildfire, and is now visible all over the planet. But is there really a new far right, or are we sadly at the end of a process of anti-political, anti-light and fundamentally anti-democratic takeover? A process in which "the West" is the watchword, capable of rejecting all ethics, all morality, but also all knowledge, on the pretext of ultimately saving a supposed white Western civilisation in its mythically original historical location. Europe, white America, the Judeo-Christian cradle.
This watchword 'the West', or Western civilisation, circulates from Trump's America to Macron's France, via Netanyahu's Israel. Admittedly, each place deploys it differently, but underneath these differences, each time it is a way of shattering the boundary between democracy and anti-democracy, making the notion not just of democracy but of the extreme right more confused each time.
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Sciences de l'Homme et SociétéOrigine | Fichiers produits par l'(les) auteur(s) |
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