The BJP’s Drive for Hegemony https://www.dissentmagazine.org/article/the-bjps-drive-for-hegemony/ Sanjay Ruparelia ▪ Spring 2024
And why does the BJP, despite its apparent ideological hegemony, seek to suppress any sign of opposition or dissent?
Another electoral victory would enable Narendra Modi’s party to inscribe de facto Hindu supremacy into law.
https://www.dissentmagazine.org/article/after-the-populist-moment/
After the Populist Moment
By looking at right-wing politics around the world, we can better understand conservatives’ abiding preoccupations and priorities, and how they might be thwarted. Introducing our Spring 2024 issue, “The Global Right.”
Matthew Sitman and Sam Adler-Bell ▪ Spring 2024 Just under a decade ago, we passed through a “populist moment,” so-called because of Brexit, Trump’s election, and the rise of Marine Le Pen as a serious contender for the French presidency, all in rapid succession. emerging from the dashed hopes and profound failings of the neoliberal order—and in many ways it has been. The terrain on which political struggle now takes place has been deeply altered by the right, with less educated voters, many of them from the working class, leaving their ancestral political parties and supporting the forces of reaction over issues like immigration, national identity, and “law and order.” But in electoral terms, the right’s record has been hit or miss, and it’s worth learning from their failures as well as their successes...In some cases, such as Hungary, India, and Israel, right-wing parties have held power through multiple election cycles. How have they entrenched their rule and tried to legitimize their revanchist projects?
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