@javiercarbonell
Deputy Director, Future Policy Lab | Policy Analyst, European Policy Centre | Teaching Assistant, Sciences Po | PhD Candidate, University of Edinburgh | Inequality, nationalism, far-right and youth https://sites.google.com/view/javiercarbonell/home
Las cortinas de humo de la derecha y de la extrema derecha solo buscan evitar que hablemos de los temas realmente importantes para el país. Nuestro deber es imponernos al ruido y abrir debates que mejoren la vida de la clase trabajadora.
De esto y más hablamos hoy con @lamarea.com
💜El #8M es reflexión, debate y futuro.
En @psoebruselas.bsky.social lo celebramos con MEP
@leirepajin.bsky.social y @javiercarbonell.bsky.social:
🔹Igualdad de género y voto joven: ¿Cómo transforman las nuevas generaciones la política?
📅 4/03 | 19:00h
📍 Clos du Parnasse 13 + online
¡Te esperamos!
Gracias por ver la errata. De 40db de enero de 2026.
Aquí la noticia de @elpais.com del genial @angelmunarriz.bsky.social en la que he participado 👇
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¿Qué hacer?
1.- No moderar el feminismo, solo produciría reacción sin movilizar a los tuyos
2.- No criticar la identidad masculina en sí, nadie te vota si criticas su identidad
3.- Hablar de los problemas económicos de TODOS los jóvenes, à la Mamdani
4.- Nombrar al enemigo real
5.- Esto no solo se produce por redes sociales, hay una realidad material muy clara de declive económico de todos los jóvenes que afecta especialmente a los hombres por su menor nivel educativo.
4.- El gran problema de los más jóvenes de izquierdas es que están desmovilizados. Son un poco más numerosos pero mucho más indecisos.
2.- La mayoría de jóvenes todavía son ligeramente más progresistas (la mediana del CIS es 5,5, no 5).
3.- Las chicas también giran a la derecha, no solo es cosa de hombres.
Nadie a quien le interese el tema de los hombres jóvenes votando a la extrema derecha debería ignorar estas cinco realidades:
1.- Hay una derechización general joven, sí, pero sobre todo hay una radicalización entre los hombres jóvenes de derechas.
La mayor amenaza para nuestras democracias es la concentración obscena de riqueza y poder en pocas manos.
En este artículo, @pbustinduy.bsky.social propone una tasa de un 2% adicional a patrimonios de más de 100 millones. Porque la democracia también se defiende con justicia fiscal.
The Spanish right supports banning the use of burka and niqab in public spaces. The argument for the policy seems to be (partly) that it will promote the emancipation of women.
We happen to have evidence that a similar policy in France had the *opposite* effect.
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elpais.com/espana/2026-...
Congratulations, I look forward to reading your work!
A couple of days ago I saw this tweet by @casmudde.bsky.social and I couldn't agree more. Mamdani is normal in Europe in many things but more to the left in others.
@euronews.com run a much more nuanced piece on the subject and I included some of Cas' ideas in it.
www.euronews.com/my-europe/20...
At the EPC I write more for a more centrist audience, that is why I was addressing them more. I feel that in the "democracy and affordability front" there is space for collaboration between centrism and the far-left. It is my little hope that it works and I try to help to see that.
Yes, many respond to that surge by copying their ideas but not all of them and that strategy can change if proven uneffective.
Also, centrist parties are worried about the affordability issue simply because it is a massive phenomenon that voters care about.
In my opinion one of the (many) next steps of the far-left is to convince other parties (centrist are the only ones available) to engane in broader coalitions. We just can't avoid it.
I see that many centrist parties are worried about the far-right and the increasing authoritarism it entails.
PSOE is now considered "leftist" because of years of that coalition, that was not their original position. And I agree that I won't convince them just by saying it. In politics you need power and votes, but again, the far-left (or greens) are starting to get that again in some countries.
Again, I agree. I must say that I was using "centrist" to refer not only to liberal parties but also to centre-left and centre-right parties, so Spain would fit. I can tell you that it took a lot fo effort for PSOE to agree to forn a government with Podemos/Sumar.
I agree but I don't think that is completely true. I agree that we have MANY such examples but we also have some in the other direction (e.g. Spain's government). I don't have much hope but my aim was to be a little push in the direction of starting to make this option more acceptable to their ears.
Fair point, but like or not centrist are not going to disappear either. We need broad coalitions, even with people we dislike or betrayed us.
Gracias!
gracias!
The centre cannot hold, and it is better to collaborate with a pro-democratic, affordability-focused, growing far-left than with an increasingly authoritarian far-right.
You can read more about it on my latest piece for the @epc-official.bsky.social
But the far-right is: anti-EU, pro-Russia and increasingly authoritarian.
It is time to consider partnerships with pro-redistribution, democratic and internationalist forces on the far left, many of which are clearly pro-European and focus greatly on affordability.
Given current electoral results, centrist parties have to collaborate to some extent with radical parties. The question is no longer whether to work with parties on the extremes, but which ones.
This is why the EPP is clearly flirting with the far right, especially in national governments.
2.- The second thing is that Centrist parties should look to their far-left, not their far-right.
The rise of democratic socialists in the US, Die Linke in Germany, La France Insoumise in France and the recent surge of the UK Green Party indicate that Europe’s far left is also growing.
We have exactly the same concerns in Europe. Cost of living is by far the most important topic in the EU, that is what we should be talking about.
Mamdani won an impressive 84% of women under 29 and 68% of young New York men, proving that the far-right trend of the young is not inevitable. Y
outh can be mobilised behind democratic platforms when affordability concerns are addressed directly.
🗳️ Mamdani's victory means two things for Europe.
1.- It's all about affordability. I am often asked why so many young men are moving to the far right and what can be done about it. It's simple: address their economic precarity.
¡Estaré hoy a las 19h hablando con @edugaresp.bsky.social sobre desigualdad, genética y herencias!