God, it pains me to hear racist and populist parties mentioned as if equivalent. True populism doesn't have anything to do with the isolationist nationalist type cr@p that's unfortunately gaining favor these days...
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God, it pains me to hear racist and populist parties mentioned as if equivalent. True populism doesn't have anything to do with the isolationist nationalist type cr@p that's unfortunately gaining favor these days...
Well, it is in Europe. So bear with it.:rolleyes:
This thread is very similar to the old "Remember the Maine" thing isn't it?;)
Can you elaborate on what you mean here? Especially by "isolationist nationalist"? Just curious; thanks. :)Quote:
Originally posted by Chang Style Novice
True populism doesn't have anything to do with the isolationist nationalist type cr@p that's unfortunately gaining favor these days...
Le Pen and NF and so forth with anti-immigrant stuff, closed border talk, that sort of thing. (Not TOO elaborate, I trust!:p )
Where do u draw the line between these 2 things, then?
(which are one!)
They're not precisely the same. Anti-immigrant stuff could be refusing citizenship or the right to work etc. to long term foreign residents without actually deporting them.
The anti-immigration parties in europe connects the immigrants' background as the base of their refusing citizenship, preferably muslims from many different countries. That's why the populist parties are called racist, because they differentiate between some immigrants from others.
Gotcha; thanks. :)
See, to me 'real' populism means the labor-movement strain of leftism originating in the NW of the USA in the late 1800s early 1900s.
Yeah, but that does'nt count the way the term populism is used in the rest of the world, does it?;)
True enough. In any case
SIC SEMPER TYRANNIS!
heh, ol' Il Duce strung up. That was done by the people itself, as it always should be.:(
Sadly, that is not the case.
im sad i missed this thread to contribute through it, its very big news that was downplayed as usual.....I will have to read back and catch up.
BTW, Have any of you read any essays from a man named John Pilger? He also has a few books out right now.....really good stuff, quite hateful, but in my view quite rightly so.
Off to Palenque now.
-greg
He has made tv-documentaries. Interesting stuff.