The point of where the numbers impact the
majority of people know a death is I guess some way off and perhaps these will
be in what might be described as ‘marginal groups’.
Political Philosophy
Getting towards the end of class (CityLit via Zoom) on Philosophy ....
I am not certain that ‘Populism’ belongs
to the left or the right, as you can imagine when a group of people who give
themselves the highfalutin’ ambition to look at something that incorporates
philosophy in it they’ll spend quite a bit of time trying to define a
term which they’ll then feel even less sure about.
Most of the group I am part of on a Tuesday evening see Trump as the embodiment of Populism and I would tend to describe the group as largely towards the left - Recep Tayyip Erdogan is another who gets a regular namecheck, I can see that Corbyn (actually both of them!) could be described as sharing some Populism characteristics but Boris Johnson far more so. I guess a positive spin could be that Populism has tendencies of re-invigorating the debates on live issues and removing some power from those bogeymen, the non-democratically accountable elites but on the downside it seems too often to become entangled with Xenophobia and dismisses dissenters as non-combatants in whatever the particular skirmish under consideration is.
Next week is the final ‘Political’
session and we’re majoring on Feminism as a non-combatant and a minority (on
the course) I will be mainly in listening mode – I like the approach that
course teacher Chris
Horner has used; being open to discussion but having a framework that
has caught some of the big themes.
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