[Peace-discuss] [Peace] Brexit

[John W.]

I'm curious whose definition of "populism" this is.


On Wed, Jan 29, 2020, 6:05 PM C. G. Estabrook via Peace <
peace at lists.chambana.net> wrote:

> “There is a battle going on, in the West and elsewhere. It is globalism
> against populism. And you may loathe populism, but I’ll tell you a funny
> thing, it’s becoming very popular.”
> --Nigel Farage, leader of the Brexit Party since 2019 and Member of the
> European Parliament (MEP) for South East England until today
>
> globalism = an ideology based on the belief that goods ought to be able to
> cross national borders unfettered ("free trade and free access to
> markets"); a socio-economic system controlled by capitalist firms rather
> than national governments.
>
> populism = an ideology that "pits a virtuous and homogeneous people
> against a set of elites and dangerous ‘others’ who are together depicted as
> depriving (or attempting to deprive) the sovereign people of their rights,
> values, prosperity, identity, and voice.”
>
> —CGE
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