Populism by Benjamin Moffitt

Author:Benjamin Moffitt [Moffitt, Benjamin]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Wiley
Published: 2020-03-06T00:00:00+00:00

Notes

1 Populism can be combined with socialism whether one uses an ideational, a strategic or a discursive–performative approach. On the ideational reading, socialism acts as the thick ideology that gives content to the thin ideology of populism, thus providing substance to its conception of ‘the people’ and ‘the elite’ in socioeconomic terms. On the strategic reading, socialist leaders can use the populist strategy as a mode of capturing government. On the discursive–performative reading, socialist parties, leaders or movements can use populist discourse or style to frame their political platforms and arguments. Concerning the cases discussed in this chapter, however, there would be some disagreement among the different approaches: on a strict reading, some ideational scholars would reject the cases of Sanders and Corbyn (and perhaps even those of Podemos and Syriza) on the grounds of their pluralist perception of ‘the people’, whereas this would not be a problem for strategic and discursive–performative approaches, given that anti-pluralism is not part of how they define populism.

2 Morales’ Movimiento al Socialismo (MAS) has particularly been cited as an inspiration for Podemos (see Errejón and Mouffe 2016: 80–93; Seguín 2015), the former party secretary Íñigo Errejón writing his PhD thesis on the party.

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