The Freedom Convoy, the resurgence of the far Right, and the crisis of the petty bourgeoisie

Abstract

Abstract This article examines the resurgence of the far Right in Canada, as expressed through the movement against pandemic restrictions and vaccine mandates that culminated with the Freedom Convoy. It argues that the growth of the far Right is a response to a series of overlapping crises of which the COVID-19 pandemic is but one. The article also explores the class character of the contemporaryfar Right, arguing that it has the hallmarks of a middle-class or, to use the Marxist idiom, petty bourgeois movement.