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Samir Amin on Democracy and Fascism

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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.

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  • Issa G. Shivji, 2020. "Samir Amin on Democracy and Fascism," Agrarian South: Journal of Political Economy, Centre for Agrarian Research and Education for South, vol. 9(1), pages 12-32, April.
    • Handle: RePEc:sae:agspub:v:9:y:2020:i:1:p:12-32
    DOI: 10.1177/2277976019901030
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    1. Issa G. Shivji, 2019. "Whither Africa in the Global South? Lessons of Bandung and Pan-Africanism," Advances in African Economic, Social and Political Development, in: Sam Moyo & Praveen Jha & Paris Yeros (ed.), Reclaiming Africa, pages 257-269, Springer.
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