Populismo e ideología. El populismo como utopismo

AuthorLuis María De Ruschi
ProfessionUniversidad del Salvador (Buenos Aires)
Pages33-43
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POPULISMO E IDEOLOGÍA.
EL POPULISMO COMO UTOPISMO
Luis María D R
Universidad del Salvador (Buenos Aires)
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En este papel me voy a limitar a algunas consideraciones
acerca del populismo y la Ideología, con especial referencia al
utopismo.
El fenómeno del populismo no ha perdido actualidad. Al mis-
mo tiempo que se multiplican los estudios de la Ciencia Política
sobre esta cuestión, el término populismo es utilizado en el len-
guaje corriente y en los medios de comunicación para catalogar
corrientes políticas y sociales de diversa orientación ideológica.
La variedad de movimientos y líderes que son calificados de «po-
pulistas» ya nos permiten ver lo que varios pensadores han soste-
nido en sede académica: que el populismo es algo muy difícil de
definir, tratándose a primera vista, de un concepto inasible.
Resulta a las claras la heterogeneidad de cosas que son rotu-
ladas como populista: así en América del Norte el populismo es
encarnado por Donald Trump, mientras que en Iberoamérica lo
es por Nicolás Maduro o Cristina Fernández de Kirchner, en tan-
to en Europa son presentados como «populistas» políticos como

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