#1203 The causes and dangers of the international rise of the right
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Jay Tomlinson
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🗓️ 21 August 2018
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Air Date: 8/21/2018
Today we take a look at some of the reasons behind the rise of right-wing movements around the world but also at some of the various shapes they're taking, strategies they're following and emerging trends that may lend them additional momentum in the future
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SHOW NOTES
Ch. 1: Madeleine Albright’s Warning Of Global Fascism - The Diane Rehm Show - Air Date 4-24-18
Madeleine Albright discusses the rise of right-wing authoritarianism around the world and the demagogic nature of Trump.
Ch. 2: Elif Shafak on the fragility of democracy - Ideas from CBC - Air Date 3-2-18
Turkish writer Elif Shafak warns of the fragility of democracy, the strategies of populist demagogues and the importance of not belittling those who are fearful but not allowing ourselves to be guided by fear either.
Ch. 3: Eliane Glaser on the misguided reaction to a rejection of politics - This is Hell - Air Date 5-8-18
Eliane Glaser breaks down Brexit and the uprising of anti-politics against technocratic policies of the elite.
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Ch. 5: Katha Pollitt: Is Trumpism fascism? - Start Making Sense from @TheNation - Air Date 8-1-18
Katha Pollitt on Trump's attacks on democracy which have a lot in common with authoritarian around the world. Austerity, pushed by right-wing parties, creates the economic anxiety that fuels racism and anti-immigrant sentiment.
Yascha Mounk and Branko Milanovic discuss why economic causes of populism are often expressed in cultural ways.
Ch. 7: Dr. Lukasz Pawlowski on Liberal vs Illiberal Democracy - Ideas from CBC - Air Date 4-10-18
Dr. Lukasz Pawlowski explains that a country being a democracy only tells you how people gain power, it doesn't tell you how that power is used. A critical difference between liberal and illiberal democracy.
Author and historian Yuval Noah Harari explains the important difference between fascism and nationalism -- and what the consolidation of our data means for the future of democracy.
Ch. 9: Final comments on the barriers to a united front against fascism in America
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| 0:20.8 | Now welcome to this episode of the award-winning best of left podcast in which we shall learn |
| 0:25.3 | about some of the reasons for the rise of right wing movements around the world. |
| 0:29.8 | Some of the various shapes they're taking, strategies they're following, and an emerging |
| 0:34.1 | trend that may lend them additional momentum in the future. |
| 0:38.0 | Clips today come from the Diane Reamshow, Ideas from the CBC, This Is Hell, Start Making |
| 0:43.9 | Sense from the Nation magazine, The Good Fight, and A Ted Talk by Yuval Noah Harare. |
| 0:59.8 | Which leaders around the world do you see falling into that category? |
| 1:09.2 | Well let me just say some of the countries that I talk about and I will also have elements |
| 1:14.0 | of fascism. |
| 1:15.0 | I think frankly the only country I've just flat out said is fascist is North Korea because |
| 1:20.3 | there is complete control, there is fear that has been instilled, there is a family that |
| 1:28.7 | controls everything, the Kim family, they also practice a way of treating their people |
| 1:35.9 | where they have put them in labor camps and this dedication to a leader that is almost |
| 1:44.3 | you know that they think they're godlike. |
| 1:46.7 | So that is the only country that I just flat out say is fascist. |
| 1:50.9 | The countries that I talk about that trouble me a great deal are what is going on in Hungary |
| 1:57.1 | and there was just an election there, sham election and then Poland, Turkey and Venezuela |
| 2:04.9 | are the countries that I spend and then Philippines. |
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