Neoliberalism and the extreme right. A problematization from Spinoza
Abstract
Starting from a political interpretation of the philosophy of Baruch Spinoza, we intend to show how neoliberal ideology and its way of understanding the world and how the relationship between subjects should be, is a key ingredient for extreme right parties and movements achieve your goals. The neoliberal political project would be incompatible not only with democracy, but also with human society itself and consequently the application of neoliberal recipes since the 1980s would be responsible for the current crisis in Western democracies that are giving rise to the growth of the so-called illiberal democracies that concern political theorists so much because they represent a great step backwards with respect to the conquest of fundamental rights and the maintenance of social peace.
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