Vol. 3 No. 2 (2022): Special Dossier - Disobediences (jul/dec 2022)
Special Dossier

How to resist authoritarian populism

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  • William E. Scheuerman,
  • Bárbara Nascimento de Lima
William E. Scheuerman
Indiana University, Bloomington, Estado Unidos da América
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Bárbara Nascimento de Lima
Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Belo Horizonte, Brasil
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.53981/(des)troos.v3i2.44293

Published 2023-04-18

Keywords

  • authoritarianism,
  • civil disobedience,
  • civil resistance,
  • nonviolence,
  • populism,
  • protest,
  • uncivil disobedience,
  • violence
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SCHEUERMAN, W. E.; LIMA, B. N. de. How to resist authoritarian populism. (Des)troços: revista de pensamento radical, Belo Horizonte, v. 3, n. 2, p. 82–103, 2023. DOI: 10.53981/(des)troos.v3i2.44293. Disponível em: https://periodicos.ufmg.br/index.php/revistadestrocos/article/view/44293. Acesso em: 17 jul. 2024.

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Abstract

Authoritarian populism poses major challenges to democracy. Yet relatively little systematic political-theoretical or philosophical analysis has focused on how best to oppose or resist it. The present essay focuses on three possible approaches now being tentatively discussed. Some writers emphasize the possible virtues of civil disobedience, others are advocating a related yet broader strategy of civil resistance, and yet others abandon both “civil” approaches in favor of uncivil disobedience. Despite their many strengths, each approach suffers from weaknesses, in part because each responds incompletely to the challenges of authoritarian populism and its use of increasingly commonplace modes of “smart” repression. With ominous implications for those worried about democracy’s fate, populists are embracing coercive techniques designed to squelch dissent without generating public sympathy or a popular backlash.

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