[lbo-talk] INSTANT POPULISM: A short history of populism old and new

[Mark Rickling]

> The word is kind of useless - you can plug just about anything into it. The basic mechanism is dividing society into good guys and bad guys - producers and parasites, industry and finance, the People and elites, whatever.
>
> Doug

Yet somehow you never seem to see modes of thought or movements that
employ the terms "capitalist" and "worker" derided as populist. But I
agree; in American context doesn't make much sense to use the word
when an economy based on semi-subsistence farming isn't even a distant
memory.