Populismi di sinistra? Il caso dell’America Latina

Populismi di sinistra? Il caso dell’America Latina

Latin American is commonly distinguished from European populism, the former being left-wing, the latter right. But such categorization fails to do justice to a complex phenomenon. With other forms of populism, the Latin American brand shares redemptive zeal and dreams of a unanimous utopia —it respo...

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Main Author: Zanatta, Loris
Format: Article ou chapitre numérique
Language:Italien
Published: Teoria politica 2020
Subjects:
Populism
Latin America
Catholicism
United States
Liberalism
Online Access:Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM
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spelling openedition-oai:revues.org:tp_514 it https://journals.openedition.org/tp/514 2020-05-26T02:00:00Z info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess article info:eu-repo/semantics/article urn:handle:20.500.13089/lh8n All rights reserved Populismi di sinistra? Il caso dell’America Latina Teoria politica Rosenberg & Sellier info:eu-repo/semantics/reference/issn/1972-5477 info:eu-repo/semantics/reference/issn/0394-1248 URI:https://journals.openedition.org/tp Zanatta, Loris Populism Latin America Catholicism United States Liberalism Latin American is commonly distinguished from European populism, the former being left-wing, the latter right. But such categorization fails to do justice to a complex phenomenon. With other forms of populism, the Latin American brand shares redemptive zeal and dreams of a unanimous utopia —it response to the disruption of political order and social ties—. But the concept of «people» that populism set out to regenerate differs from case to case and the kind of past it evokes: while people, for the United States, must entail a constitutional charter so that US populism develops within the bounds of liberal democracy, Latin American populism conjures up a holistic natural group, the people as an organic community underlying political regimes that are against the ethos and institutional structure of liberal democracy. Springing from an age-old organic and quasi-religious vision, Latin American populism proclaims the principle of unanimity. It is inclusive, but may turn totalitarian in the people’s name. It may have a popular basis and implement policies of social distributism, but its outstanding feature is the ambition to transform its people into the whole people. In refusing to be part of a plural group, and in claiming to embody the only legitimate people, it thus ends up having to play all the roles that are shared out among left- and right-wing parties in a pluralist system.
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topic Populism
Latin America
Catholicism
United States
Liberalism
spellingShingle Populism
Latin America
Catholicism
United States
Liberalism
Zanatta, Loris
Populismi di sinistra? Il caso dell’America Latina
description Latin American is commonly distinguished from European populism, the former being left-wing, the latter right. But such categorization fails to do justice to a complex phenomenon. With other forms of populism, the Latin American brand shares redemptive zeal and dreams of a unanimous utopia —it response to the disruption of political order and social ties—. But the concept of «people» that populism set out to regenerate differs from case to case and the kind of past it evokes: while people, for the United States, must entail a constitutional charter so that US populism develops within the bounds of liberal democracy, Latin American populism conjures up a holistic natural group, the people as an organic community underlying political regimes that are against the ethos and institutional structure of liberal democracy. Springing from an age-old organic and quasi-religious vision, Latin American populism proclaims the principle of unanimity. It is inclusive, but may turn totalitarian in the people’s name. It may have a popular basis and implement policies of social distributism, but its outstanding feature is the ambition to transform its people into the whole people. In refusing to be part of a plural group, and in claiming to embody the only legitimate people, it thus ends up having to play all the roles that are shared out among left- and right-wing parties in a pluralist system.
author Zanatta, Loris
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title Populismi di sinistra? Il caso dell’America Latina
title_short Populismi di sinistra? Il caso dell’America Latina
title_full Populismi di sinistra? Il caso dell’America Latina
title_fullStr Populismi di sinistra? Il caso dell’America Latina
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