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Violence of Values/Values of Violence. The Cultural Struggle of Alt-Right Politics
Violence of Values/Values of Violence. The Cultural Struggle of Alt-Right Politics

Author(s): Nuria Sánchez Madrid
Subject(s): Sociology, Studies in violence and power, Sociology of Politics
Published by: Lietuvos mokslų akademijos leidykla
Keywords: violence; sovereignty; interdependence; precarity; demos; Alt-Right;

Summary/Abstract: This paper tackles the construction of social and political values that contemporary Alt-Right politics foster. Its aim will be, first, to tackle the values that Alt-Right parties are spreading at a global scale from the last decade. Second, I will focus on how they address the most precarious social groups for increasing their supporters and how they have built a new model of the social order that gainsays human and civil rights. Finally, I will give an account of some reasons that explain the social failure of classical Leftist political parties, also attempting to transform the ways they accost the former ‘working class’. I engage a dialogue with Zeynep Gambetti and Vladimir Safatle, as both authors have centrally addressed the cultural struggle that populist right parties accomplish on a global scale.

  • Issue Year: 31/2020
  • Issue No: 1
  • Page Range: 7-15
  • Page Count: 9
  • Language: English