Populism is a word that is being imposed in the speeches of the policy of the system and of the media in recent times, at the time of the destruction and reconstruction of the form of production obsolete by the liberal economic power.

Populism is not, in fact, the new word, which historians have called “populist behavior”, has been picked up in older books for a long time. For example, the Roman Julius Caesar is often an example of populism. Why? Because he guaranteed laws and aid for the people, but not because he really cared a bell for the people; because by putting the people in his favor and having a supporter army, he influenced Republican Rome and, besides being a dictator of always, he wanted to be king, that is, the owner of the world.

If we admit this, the term populism has a negative sense, insofar as it is a false discourse that demagogues use. Populism is a concept that expresses the demand for what citizens want to hear, but a manipulation of citizens subject to perverse ends that are hidden and that authoritarian leaders, tyrants, do for their benefit.

Populism, today, is a confused political phenomenon, ideologically null, that expresses irresponsibility; that instead of using the argument, it arouses emotions in the worst sense, provided that an elite is committed to maintaining its economic dictatorship, its hegemony, in the people.

I am clear that populism can only be right-wing. But lately, the slaves of the liberal elite have turned it into a magic word to attack, especially later, the idea of the left and the governments. They say that there is populism from right and left, matching the positions for the people, and that the worst, the popular, the left, and the popular, the right.

Betting on the people, when it comes to sincere ideological behaviour, is a symbol of the Left: nationalising resources, implementing progressive fiscal and social policies, asking for protection for the poor and ordinary workers, claiming the base salary, sovereignty in the face of globalisation, production or energy.

But that is, the discursive turn that neoliberals have achieved: everything that makes a common and unique market economy difficult, and everything that calls into question the approved “democratic” coverages, say it is populist.

And the most serious thing, overwhelmed by those on the left, because we don't want to hear that we share anything with the populists on the right; they shut us down, very weakly, with the inability to express our views, and chained, once again, in their speech. Offside. What is more, contrary to the populists, in the endeavour to help liberals get back into power, in the hope that it will be a bad thing!

Harrapazan/k!