Variations of Eurocommunism

Balampanidis, Ioannis

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“…However, this did not undermine SYRIZA's long commitment to egalitarianism, tolerance and minority rights, already registered in their profile as a new left party with its roots in the Eurocommunist tradition. 106 Not surprisingly, ANEL and SYRIZA clashed when the latter proposed a bill in June 2015 that would grant full citizenship rights to most second-generation immigrants and especially immigrant children. The bill was eventually voted down by ANEL but passed with the support of parties of the liberal centre and the centre-left (RIVER [Potami], PASOK).…”

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Constructing ‘the people’ of populism: a critique of the ideational approach from a discursive perspective

Katsambekis

2020

Journal of Political Ideologies

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This article takes as its starting point the emerging consensus among scholars regarding the core defining characteristics of populism, namely the centrality of 'the people' and an antagonistic view of society that pits the former against an unresponsive or illegitimate elite. It suggests that the assumption found in the currently dominant strand of populism studies, the so-called ideational approach, that populism necessarily constructs a homogeneous and morally pure people is problematic and may lead to analytical and normative bias, as it automatically equates populism with an anti-pluralist and illiberal form of politics. To substantiate this point, the article starts from a brief survey of the complex language games involved in the construction of 'the people' in democratic modernity. It then moves on to reconstruct the key principles of the ideational and the discursive approaches to populism, suggesting that the latter offers a more robust and flexible framework for understanding how populism creates a sense of unity out of linking a series of heterogeneous demands and identities, without necessarily resulting in a homogeneous 'people,' while it problematizes the role of moral framings in populism and politics more broadly. A series of relevant empirical cases of diverse populist mobilisations, ranging from the radical left to the radical right, and from party politics to social movements, are surveyed to provide empirical grounding for the theoretical argument. The suggestion put forth is not to dismiss the ideational approach and its important legacy, but rather to revise two of its key elements, the homogeneity thesis and the morality thesis, opening up the possibility to conceive of 'the people' in terms of unity and to understand the latter's antagonism with the 'elite' in terms of politics.

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Constructing ‘the people’ of populism: a critique of the ideational approach from a discursive perspective

Katsambekis

2020

Journal of Political Ideologies

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“…66 This overlapped with an ideological emphasis on democratic socialism that appealed to allies in Europe-under the aegis of Eurocommunism-and resulted in an attempt to limit the party's dependence on the USSR. 67 The multiform revolutionary Left maintained a complex relation with the anti-fascist tradition. A prominent faction of the revolutionary groups-for example, the Marxist-Leninists and the Milan-based Movimento Studentesco-supported the narrative of a red resistance betrayed by the reformists.…”

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The Manifold Partisan

Scalia¹

2020

Radical History Review

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This article examines how the Italian Communist Party and the Italian revolutionary Left connected internationalism to anti-fascism in the main internationalist campaigns that marked the high point of internationalist mobilizations between the mid-1960s and the mid-1970s, and considers to what extent this tradition is still relevant today. In particular, this article focuses on the movements of solidarity with the Vietnamese and Palestinian national liberation struggles and against the Greek and Chilean dictatorships. At various moments in time and depending on the particular campaign, multiple leftist actors bridged the gaps between anti-fascism and anti-imperialism in a variety of ways by relying on their peculiar relationships with the anti-fascist tradition. Furthermore, the actions of international and foreign individuals and organizations, the activities of anti-fascist veterans and neofascists, and the specific context of Italian and international political conjunctures influenced the nature of such “bridging” and the resonance between these frames of anti-fascism and anti-imperialism.

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Variations of Eurocommunism

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Constructing ‘the people’ of populism: a critique of the ideational approach from a discursive perspective

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