Abstract
The talk will focus on the potential of social media to support commoning relations and the actuality of devastating impacts through post-truth, fake-news populism.
Highlights
In a first section, definitions of populism shall be discussed
The question will be asked whether populism can be attributed, in principle, to right-wing politics, to left-wing politics, or even to the mainstream politics of the so-called liberal democracy
There is no agreed-upon meaning of the term “populism”
Summary
The question will be asked whether populism can be attributed, in principle, to right-wing politics, to left-wing politics, or even to the mainstream politics of the so-called liberal democracy. The term has become a polemical term, a discursive weapon, used by proponents of so-called liberal democracy. This overlooks that nowadays almost every politics feels a pressure to become populist, as Robert Menasse pointed out in a talk-show [3], and that populism is not an external enemy of democracy but inheres in its centre—culminating in the current stage of neoliberal development of capitalism [1].
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