Marta Kuzma, with respondent Hashim Sarkis
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Today, yesterday's LEFT has collapsed into what is referred to as "progressivism," which aspires toward a MIDDLE, and today's right has evolved into a neoliberalist faction and an ever more powerful faction in the form of an aggressive populism characterized by irrationalism, racism, xenophobia and misogyny. This reality is not limited to the United States but extends internationally as confirmed by the Brexit referendum of the UK, the political dynamics currently in place in Brazil, in the policies of prime Minister Narendra Modi in India, and in the upcoming referendum in Italy later this fall, which, if supported, may well lead to the dissolution of the European Union. Within this international and networked landscape looms the deepening influence of "revanchism," or the politics of revenge, with its rhetoric of retribution, a rhetoric that once arose in Germany in response to the Versailles Treaty and was central to building the Nazi appeal.
