[Peace-discuss] [Peace] Brexit

[C. G. Estabrook]

Daniele Albertazzi and Duncan McDonnell, "Twenty-First Century Populism: The Spectre of Western European Democracy" (2008).

—CGE


> On Jan 29, 2020, at 7:22 PM, John W. <jbw292002 at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> 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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