Cihan Tuğal is the author of Passive Revolution: Absorbing the Islamic Challenge to Capitalism (Stanford UP) and The Fall of the Turkish Model: How the Arab Uprisings brought down Islamic Liberalism (Verso). He is a professor of sociology at the University of California, Berkeley. His new book, Caring for the Poor: Islamic and Christian Benevolence in a Liberal World, is published by Routledge.
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Published in: Rethinking Populism: OpinionTo achieve real political change, populism is necessaryBut the Left needs to know how to mobilise the people against power blocs
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?Leninism without the working class? The missing subject in Malm’s ecological revolutionThe sense of emergency is in the air. Yet, without some preparation, any alarmist action would result in political,...
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?Democratic Socialism beyond the New DealWe can lead better lives in an inhabitable world (for more than just a few decades) only if we chart a less...
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Published in: HomeTurkey coup aftermath: between neo-fascism and BonapartismPredictions about the consequences of Turkey’s failed coup focus on how it fulfils Erdoğan’s desire for an...
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Published in: HomeIn Turkey, the regime slides from soft to hard totalitarianismThe resemblances to interwar Italy are unmistakable, and the results are gradually turning out to be almost as fatal.