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Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Višić, Maroje

Titel

Može li i kako populizam biti nova strategija obnove ljevice

Ist Teil von

• Sociologija, 2020, Vol.62 (3), p.330-353

Ort / Verlag

Belgrade: Sociološko naučno društvo Srbije

Erscheinungsjahr

2020

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• I start with the question of whether populism can be a strategy forrenewing the Left. I argue that populism has such potential if: a) it is used forbringing together “scattered consciousnesses”, b) if it advocates and goes in thedirection of radical reform, c) if it is accompanied by minutely pre-defined reformpolicies, and most importantly d) if the Left manages to bridge populism’s inherentgap between the promised and the fulfilled. Among the various definitions ofpopulism discussed at the outset of the text, I choose to use one that defines populismas a discursive-rhetorical style and technique of doing politics. I offer six antithesesthat could be considered to have contributed to the fall of the Left. The focus thenshifts to the success and failure of the Third Way, which I interpret as a collection ofideologemes, phrases, and floating signifiers used for new populist rhetoric. I thenseek to demonstrate what Le Bon’s Psychology of the Crowd – in which importanttopics about populism are discussed – has to say about the psychology of populismand the mechanisms of acceptance of populist rhetoric, and whether it contains anyuseful lessons for the Left. In the last part I propose six theses and discuss populismas a strategy for renewing the Left.