File spoon-archives/marxism.archive/marxism_1995/95-02-28.000, message 106


Date: Fri, 10 Feb 1995 13:37:15 -0500 (EST)
From: Louis N Proyect <lnp3-AT-columbia.edu>
Subject: Re: Neo-Populism?


On Fri, 10 Feb 1995, Jon Beasley-Murray wrote:

> In the discussion of populism we've managed to produce lengthy but fairly 
> abstruse discussions of the Russian peasantry or Peronism.... 
> 
> I suspect that populism is the articulation of a class politics 
> subordinated to a larger unity (or totality).  The conditions of its 
> success are the decay of a previous totalizing construct (which may well 
> have been able to negate class difference) and its ability to produce a 
> class fraction that materially can benefit from the shift, which it may 
> well later pass for universal.
> 
Louis Proyect:
Gee, Jon, thanks for helping to point the path away from abstruseness....


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