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

[Carrol Cox]

Mark's crude attempt at definition by enumeration  does raise a problem: Is
"populism" and abstraction (and therefore definable) or is it a mere
empirical generalization -- and therefore not definable?

Carrol

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> Mark Rickling
> Tea Partiers are not family farmers, and therefore , not "populists".

This is exactly the type of narrow analytical view that I am trying to
contest. It's like saying anyone who is not European and living between
WWI and WWII cannot be a fascist.

Well, they cannot be a Fascist of Nazi, but they sure can be a neofascist
or neonazi.

And, looking back through history, the idea of populism existed before the
agrarian populists of the late 19th century.

Jacksonian populism, for example.  Jackson is praised by some on the left
who conveniently ignore his genocide of native populations.

-chip

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