READING THE FAR RIGHT BEYOND SELF-RIGHTEOUSNESS: NEOLIBERALISM, DEMOCRATIC DEFICIT, AND JAVIER MILEI'S GLOBAL LEADERSHIP
Bibliographic record
Abstract
Abstract This article is an invitation to reflect on the far right beyond self-righteousness. The authors challenge the conventional perception of the far right as wholly separate from mainstream politics and society, arguing instead that there is substantial overlap, particularly in terms of patriarchy, racism, and neoliberalism. Nonetheless, the right does innovate and evolve, and it is important to make sense of these shifts. The article’s second section argues that some of the most cutting-edge forms of right-wing activism are currently unfolding in the Global South. Argentinian President Javier Milei’s leadership is a noteworthy case, as it blends right-wing intersectionality (Ravecca et al., 2022a; 2022b), a conservative version of the critique of elite capture (O. Táíwò, 2022), and the theological dimension of neoliberalism (Kotsko, 2018). The conclusion goes back to the idea that, at multiple significant levels, there is no pure exteriority between the far right and the rest of us. Even Milei’s ‘new’ rhetoric radicalizes tendencies that were already present in the main corridors of politics and academia.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame machine prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.004 | 0.005 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.005 | 0.017 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.009 | 0.004 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.003 |
| Research integrity | 0.002 | 0.003 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.003 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".