[P2P-F] [Authoritarian-working-group] Fwd: The Rise of Populist Authoritarianisms in Asia

[Michel Bauwens]

On Wed, Jan 24, 2018 at 7:00 PM, Nick Buxton <nick at tni.org> wrote:

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> Subject: The Rise of Populist Authoritarianisms in Asia
> Date: Wed, 24 Jan 2018 04:06:54 +0000
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> To: Nick Buxton <nick at tni.org> <nick at tni.org>
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> In many countries in Asia, new forms of authoritarianism are on the
> rise. How should we respond to the emergence of this political force?
> The Rise of Populist Authoritarianisms in Asia
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> Unlike in countries that only began to become more closely integrated into
> the global economy in the early 1990s, and where one-party rule or military
> dictatorships are still being challenged by nascent pro-democracy forces
> (such as Cambodia and Myanmar), populist authoritarian, if not altogether
> fascist, groups and individuals seem to be gaining—or regaining—ground in
> those countries which also happen to have been more closely connected to
> the world market and where dictatorships had previously given way to
> liberal-democratic rule.
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> Challenges for Peoples' Movements
> In many countries in Asia, new forms of authoritarianism are on the rise.
> In the Philippines, Rodrigo Duterte—a former mayor accused of organizing
> death squads and who promised to make the fish of Manila Bay grow fat from
> the bodies of drug dealers—won the presidential elections in 2016. In
> Thailand in 2014, a general who had favored cracking down on demonstrators
> led other military leaders in launching a coup against the democratically
> elected government. In India, a Hindu nationalist party, the Bharatiya
> Janata Party (BJP), won the elections in 2014, and its leader, Narendra
> Modi, a member of an extreme right-wing group who incited and condoned
> riots that killed hundreds of Muslims, became prime minister.
> In the same year, Prabowo Subianto, a former general under Suharto who
> also advocates strongman rule, nearly became Indonesia’s president. In
> Cambodia, the Cambodian People’s Party (CPP) which has been ruling the
> country for more than three decades has demonstrated its unwillingness to
> cede or even share power.  While the CPP rejects allegations of being
> authoritarian, it has escalated actions to get rid of its opponents, and
> has clamped down on any form of popular resistance and dissent that could
> pose significant challenges to its perpetuity. Hopes for genuine peoples’
> democracy in Cambodia appear extremely dim at this time.
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