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.... --- from list marxism-AT-lists.village.virginia.edu --- ------------------
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