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/461/ Welcome to the World of the Right ft. Michael C. Williams (Patreon)

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2025-01-02 18:25:47
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2025-01-02 18:26:06
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On radical conservatism and global order.

Professor Michael C. Williams talks to George and Alex about his co-authored World of the Right and how the radical right has gone global. We discuss:

Does academia takes the Right as seriously as it should?

What's the difference between the radical right and the far right, the new right, national conservatives, or fascists?

How is the right 'global'? How is it constituted by globalisation?

Why is the radical right focused on the global liberal managerial elite? What does it get right and what does it get wrong about this stratum?

How did the radical right come to take Gramsci seriously?

Is the radical right just parasitic on the breakdown of liberal universalism?

What does this analysis of the radical right say about the Left – is it the force that protects the status quo of the liberal international order?

Links:

World of the Right: Radical Conservatism and Global Order, Michael C. Williams et al., Cambridge UP

/351/ Eating the Left’s Lunch? ft. Cecilia Lero & Tamás Gerőcs

/129/ The Right Is Weak ft. Corey Robin

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Davka Smolah Collective

Great episode, a lot to digest and think over. It does leave me with one overarching question: Given that "we" here, in this Patreon, are all "Left"-wing, largely "New Class", etc ourselves, and thus capable of seeing the internal contradictions and complexities of these things, why do "we" (the Left) keep acting like what the New/Radical Right say we are? To pick out a concrete example from the episode, what did Sahra Wagenknecht do that renders her a member of the New Radical Right? You look up her BSW party and most of its membership are derived from the communist wing of Die Linke and a few other old Stalinist sectarian forces. Am I to believe that Oestalgie and Stalinism are just like free-marketeer Trumpism and Mileism, two economic wings of the same Radical Right bird? Put more polemically, why do we continue to insist that "we" (New Class/PMC academic liberals, etc,) get some kind of veto-power over who can count as "we" (the Left) even when that amounts to contradicting the actual positioning of historical Left formations? IMHO it's a crippling analytical weakness.

Ribo Kader

Very interesting episode that left open some questions about the class analysis of that New Right. What I don’t get is what the material basis of that managerial class is, and how and why it obtained its position of power. What are its relations to other classes? Is it more powerful than capitalists or has it replaced them? And secondly, is its ideology a necessary consequence of its economic basis? In Marxist theory, there are clear answers to those questions. What are the answers the New Right has? Obviously there is a big overlap with the PMC debate on the left.