Provocation 2: Use populism to accuse or disqualify adversaries
Benjamín Arditi · 2024
Jacques Rancière says that the word democracy in ancient Greece was an insult used to disqualify one’s adversaries. C.B. Macpherson reminds us that it was a bad word in 19th-century Britain. This chapter proposes that populism may have displaced democracy as an insult.