ABSTRACT
Right-wing Western populism and Islamic populism, despite their seemingly uncompromising animosity to each other, have a history of shared political interests; close alliances and collaboration against common enemies, and have both emerged as a response to the same social and economic (dis)order, neo-liberal imperialism. The populists from both camps dislike the formal legal system and liberal democracy, disregard the rights of minorities, normalise misogynist and racist feelings and actions, promote xenophobic nationalism, and make irrelevant class struggle and class solidarity. Their global impact, along with environmental catastrophe, poses serious challenges to human achievements of the past centuries.
