Illusion of Left-Wing Populism:

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  • 左翼ポピュリズムという幻影
  • 左翼ポピュリズムという幻影 : ギリシアの急進左派連合とスペインのポデモスから
  • サヨク ポピュリズム ト イウ ゲンエイ : ギリシア ノ キュウシン サハ レンゴウ ト スペイン ノ ポデモス カラ
  • ―ギリシアの急進左派連合とスペインのポデモスから―
  • Greece’s SYRIZA and Spain’s PODEMOS

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<p>Previous literature has discussed how populism could be beneficial to existing democracies by covering issues that mainstream political parties failed to address, the purpose of these studies being to attract public attention to revitalize politics. Some argue that, in order to counter right-wing populism that emphasizes the unity of ‘the people’ by using a xenophobic rhetoric, it is necessary to foster left-wing populism that creates ‘the people’ by determining an adversary represented by neoliberal forces. This article examines how left-wing populist parties influenced democracies in the cases of SYRIZA in Greece and PODEMOS in Spain. The findings of this study show that the two parties had surged due to the countries’ specific socio-economic and political conditions and eventually failed to alter the prevailing mode of the democracies. The problems with the left-wing populist parties included the assumption of homogeneity among ‘the people’, lack of coordination between horizontal social movements and the vertically structured parties, weak influence of the European Parliament on domestic politics, and the lack of a narrative as tangible as that of the right-wing populist parties.</p>

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