The Rise of Populism & the Crisis of Globalisation: Brexit, Trump and Beyond

Written by Michael Cox. Director, LSE IDEAS, London School of Economics

A spectre is haunting Europe—the spectre of communism. All the powers of old Europe have entered into a holy alliance to exorcise this spectre: Pope and Tsar, Metternich and Guizot, French Radicals and German police-spies.

- Karl Marx, The Communist manifesto (1848)