Abstract
The paper critically explores the dialectic relationships between the new left and the far right in advanced industrial democracies regarding the question of politics of identity. Whereas the former advocates a politics of inclusion, adopting multicultural democracy as its guiding principle both in intraparty praxis and as its vision for post-national Europe, the latter has reappropriated the discourse of identity to serve its politics of exclusion. The unintended consequences are that the new left has relegitimized - both politically and theoretically - the far right. In terms of realignment, it may well be that both extremes find themselves realigned on the same end of the material/cultural dimension.
| Original language | English |
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| Pages (from-to) | 311-335 |
| Number of pages | 25 |
| Journal | Journal of Political Ideologies |
| Volume | 10 |
| Issue number | 3 |
| DOIs | |
| State | Published - Oct 2005 |
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This output contributes to the following UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)
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SDG 10 Reduced Inequalities -
SDG 16 Peace, Justice and Strong Institutions
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