The New Popular Front
The ascendancy of the authoritarian right has generated a counterreaction on the part of the Left to restore the Popular Front that once confronted fascism. Although often led by the socialist left, the Popular Front was the vanguard of the movement to democratize capitalism rather than abolish it. Is recreating such a front the only or best way to confront the threat of fascism today?
Contemporary politics is reenacting the past. Resurrecting the Popular Front of yesteryear is fast becoming the Left’s chosen form of restoration. What to make of that? What was the Popular Front as social movement and in mythic memory? How would today’s version, assuming it materializes, compare? It’s an elusive subject. Some opening assumptions — in part unexceptionable, […]
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