Open AccessPochwała populizmu. Esej polemiczny
Author(s) -
Kazimierz W. Frieske
Publication year - 2019
Publication title -
kultura i społeczeństwo
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2300-195X
pISSN - 0023-5172
DOI - 10.35757/kis.2019.63.4.6
Subject(s) - populism , democracy , context (archaeology) , term (time) , epistemology , order (exchange) , sociology , mood , politics , simple (philosophy) , political science , positive economics , social psychology , psychology , philosophy , law , history , economics , physics , archaeology , finance , quantum mechanics
The author supports the claim that attempts to formulate a universal definition of the term “populism” are not worthwhile, because the sense of the term is usually determined by a specific social context. Understanding the utopian nature of populism provides a better understanding of the utopian nature of democracy and allows for a humble departure from dreams of a perfect social order, because, as has been shown in numerous survey studies, the contemporary shift of social mood, attitudes, and opinions toward some version of populism is a relatively simple consequence of the deficiencies of democracy in its neoliberal version.