{"title":"The Freedom Convoy, the resurgence of the far Right, and the crisis of the petty bourgeoisie","authors":"T. Gordon","doi":"10.1080/07078552.2022.2161226","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"Abstract This article examines the resurgence of the far Right in Canada, as expressed through the movement against pandemic restrictions and vaccine mandates that culminated with the Freedom Convoy. It argues that the growth of the far Right is a response to a series of overlapping crises of which the COVID-19 pandemic is but one. The article also explores the class character of the contemporaryfar Right, arguing that it has the hallmarks of a middle-class or, to use the Marxist idiom, petty bourgeois movement.","PeriodicalId":39831,"journal":{"name":"Studies in Political Economy","volume":"103 1","pages":"280 - 293"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"2022-09-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"2","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Studies in Political Economy","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1080/07078552.2022.2161226","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"Q3","JCRName":"Social Sciences","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract This article examines the resurgence of the far Right in Canada, as expressed through the movement against pandemic restrictions and vaccine mandates that culminated with the Freedom Convoy. It argues that the growth of the far Right is a response to a series of overlapping crises of which the COVID-19 pandemic is but one. The article also explores the class character of the contemporaryfar Right, arguing that it has the hallmarks of a middle-class or, to use the Marxist idiom, petty bourgeois movement.
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Studies in Political Economy is an interdisciplinary journal committed to the publication of original work in the various traditions of socialist political economy. Researchers and analysts within these traditions seek to understand how political, economic and cultural processes and struggles interact to shape and reshape the conditions of people"s lives.
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