Las nuevas caras de la derecha

A ghost haunts the world, and this time it is not communism but a new right that is gaining space in Europe, the United States and Latin America and that, whether due to rejection, underestimation or perplexity, almost no one understands. The historian Enzo Traverso -a brilliant analyst of contemporary ideas- puts the magnifying glass on the new faces of the right wing that, attentive to the fluctuations of public opinion, manages to conquer the voters with his irreverence and his furious discourse against the political elites. In full swing, these movements knew how to discard their most violent faces and "change their skin", embracing an ideal of a threatened nation and values ??at risk, which sees the other (the immigrant, the poor, young people from peripheral neighborhoods, feminisms ) as responsible for the economic and social crisis. What is new and what is old in these currents that claim to be revolutionary? What do you have to propose? Traverso draws an unmissable guide about the "new right", as well as its correlate: the power vacuum of the traditional party system, which has lost its social bases and also its identity discourses. Thus, he reconstructs the paradoxes of a scenario in which leaders like Jair Bolsonaro or Donald Trump used their personal or media charisms -and, above all, took advantage of the defects of their adversaries- to ascend without the need to demonstrate their own merits. And it shows how, if confronted with the classical fascism of the early twentieth century, the current radical right lacks a utopian imaginary and ideas for the future, but it entails a danger that should not be ignored and that challenges the capacities of the left. to sketch an alternative.