uprisings against the left

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Anthony Alessandrini

end of “white populism” as a fever dream
https://jps.library.utoronto.ca/index.php/des/article/view/18630
white working class fails to achieve a class conciousness
- engagement and move towards white elites
is it a violence indentended to maintain the current state of violence
constellation of alternatives - angela davis
right using BLM and antifa, by terming these over and over, have really set the stage for discussion

Cubukcu Ayca

Alejandro Velasco

reading the last 15-20 years from leftwing uprisings to rightwing countermovements
- there is something that is the right and the left and the middle
- major challenge of the right in latam is not in policy or method, but with epistemic on revisionism on vocabulary
right came back to power through deft usage of parlimentary procedures, and strategic deployment of liberal discourses
- whitewhashing of liberal values grounded in the supremcy of individual rights
usage of the liberal’s inability to see their discourses being used in another fashion
hid the accomplishments of the left in power by switching the debate to the failures of the left
- cannot be understated, pink tide forced the right to specific positions
  - forced right to tackle the distribution of resources
    - argentina, chile
left’s dependence on the activist model
the left’s mode is always a defensive one, but the horizon of possiblities is constrained by the discourses of the right
bolivia -> the wake of a morales
chile -> tremednous upsurge around rewriting of constitution
abandonment of the idea that the right and left exist, camoloughing this with “authortiarianism” or “facism” is different for social justice

Vijay Prashad