Samir Amin on Democracy and Fascism

Issa G. Shivji

Agrarian South: Journal of Political Economy, 2020, vol. 9, issue 1, 12-32

Abstract: This article discusses the crisis of the liberal democratic form, its manifestation in the rise of the far right, and the popular resistance to it. These developments find their concentrated expression in Latin America which has witnessed the swaying of the pendulum from dictatorship to radical populism through the episodic detour into liberal democracy and back to endemic popular revolts with historic participation of thousands and millions of working people, indigenous communities, and sections of the middle classes, in particular, students. The Latin American scene is briefly surveyed because it has important lessons to teach the international left, and also because it holds up a possible trajectory of political developments in Africa.

Keywords: Democracy; fascism; resource nationalism; Latin America; Africa (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2020
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DOI: 10.1177/2277976019901030

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