Citations:redwashing


 * 2013 — Luke March, The European radical left and the international economic crisis: opportunity wasted? Open Democracy. 5 February 2013.
 * «More problematic is that RLPs [radical left parties] lack a meta-narrative to replace communism. Their core messages have rarely resonated as much as anti-immigration or environmentalism do for the right and Greens. Moreover, with many other parties claiming to oppose neo-liberalism since 2008, the danger of redwashing (the appropriation of ‘socialist’ ideas) has been apparent. Newer formations like the Pirates appeal more (perhaps temporarily?) to younger anti-establishment voters who regard RLPs as antiquated.»


 * 2013 — Luke March, What’s Left of the Left in Central and Eastern Europe? Russian International Affairs Council. 28 August 2013.
 * «The fourth crisis is that the left no longer has a distinct message. This is clearly related to the fracturing of this social base. If the left no longer speaks for the workers, if equality is now considered an economically illiterate goal, then the left often finds itself putting forward a message that differs little from those of its competitors. Indeed, since the 2008 crisis, there has been a lot of ‘redwashing’ – i.e. competitors adopting policies that the left has traditionally regarded as its own. Leaders such as Angela Merkel and Nicolas Sarkozy were among the most forthright in criticizing market excesses (though their policies did not back up their rhetoric). Similarly, a number of right-wing populists have embraced socially protectionist themes (for example the British National Party’s demand for ‘British Jobs for British Workers’), and so appeal to many former social democrat voters who feel that their parties’ embrace of globalization has left them defenseless against foreign competition.»


 * 2016 — Luke March, 2016: The Ebbing of Europe’s Radical Left Tide? European Futures. 7 November 2016.
 * «Despite its increasing pragmatism, the radical left remains one of the most ideological party families, with a core of principles (eg anti-militarism, internationalism) that are reflected in often comparatively rigid policy proposals (eg opposition to all privatisation, unfettered immigration, no military intervention). The right, in contrast, tends to be more about values and identity than programme (eg nationalism, traditionalism). This makes it more flexible and adept at ‘redwashing’ (ie adopting the left’s policy agenda). For instance, Angela Merkel, combines ordo-liberalism with advocating a financial transaction tax, one of the radical left’s favoured policies. Our research has shown how most RLPs have remained uncritically pro-immigration, even when this has put them very firmly against the tide of public opinion.»


 * 2017 — Zsófia Lakatos, Corporate Social Performance in Emerging Markets: Sustainable Leadership in an Interdependent World. Routledge. March, 2017.
 * «Redwashing is similar to greenwashing, but it encompasses social issues. It describes social contributions for which businesses are taking too much credit and for which they are getting more PR [public relations] out of than is really due.»


 * 2017 — Luke March, The European Radical Left: Potentiality and Limits. Rivista di Politica. April - June, 2017.
 * «Although there is nothing intrinsically negative about ideological politics, the left can be accused of putting doctrine before values. Similarly, the left is (generally) worse equipped than the right to appeal to emotions, identity and fears. Indicatively, the radical left retains a core of principles (e.g. anti-militarism, internationalism) that find reflection in relatively rigid policy proposals (e.g. opposition to all privatization). The right in contrast tends to prioritise values and identity (e.g. nationalism, traditionalism) over doctrine. This makes it more flexible and adept at «redwashing» (i.e. adopting the left’s policy agenda). For instance, whereas right-wing populists can add welfarism to chauvinism, the left would find it unprincipled to do the reverse.»


 * 2018 — Sarah Dadush, Why You Should Be Unsettled by the Biggest Automotive Settlement in History. University of Colorado Law Review. February, 2018.
 * «These (combined) peculiarities reveal a number of gaps in our corporate accountability regime, in particular when it comes to broken sustainability promises and greenwashing. Greenwashing happens when a company seeks to boost its sales or its brand by overstating its environmental ambitions and achievements. It is a main source of identity harm, along with “redwashing” or “bluewashing,” terms used to describe the overstating of social (e.g., labor and human rights) ambitions and achievements. When “color-washing” happens—and goes unpunished—consumers concerned about the effects of their purchases on the planet and on other humans can experience a special type of emotional anguish that results from having been made unwittingly complicit in causing harm.»


 * 2018 — Sarah Dadush, Identity Harm. University of Colorado Law Review. June, 2018.
 * «Certification and standards-based schemes are designed to help differentiate between products on the basis of their sustainability features and to tell apart products that truly are sustainable from those that merely claim to be sustainable—a practice referred to as “greenwashing” for environmental claims and sometimes as “redwashing” or “bluewashing” for social claims.»