What actually is the relationship between yesterday’s fascism and today’s right-wing populism? In his new, strikingly book, Red Pill Politics: Demystifying Today's Far Right From Fascism to Right-Wing Populism, David Ost argues that these are but two versions of a similar kind of politics that emerges during tough economic times when the Left offers no alternative and its ties to the working class weaken. Using examples from contemporary America, Europe, and Asia and from Fascist Italy and Nazi Germany, Ost explains why the Red Pill radical right is able to win the support of non-elites who traditionally align with the Left, and shows what the broad Left has done historically, and can do today, to defeat it.
Presented by the Robert L. Heilbroner Center for Capitalism Studies at The New School for Social Research.
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