Europa i Zapadni Balkan u populističkom ruhu
Europe and the Western Balkans in the Populist Outfit

Summary/Abstract: Author argues that populism as a process of questioning the dominant ideology and its regime of truth has, in its stronger egalitarian impulse, an emancipatory potential for, as Foucault points, the separation of the power of truth from hegemonic forms. Populism, however, due to specific historic and social contexts, may divert to nationalism once the ‘we-the-people’ is understood in ethnic-cultural, or in similar exclusivistic terms, and thus continue to reaffirm the regime which is the very source of crisis itself. Yet, populism, led by the demand for more democracy, could contribute to progressive reforms, as once American Progressivist Movement did. This ambivalence is very important today when we investigate the possibilities to fill out the currently emptied space of the left-wing politics. The key question according to the author is: do we have ‘real preconditions’ for such a construction of a new single narrative that could undermine the solid marriage between nationalism and capitalism?

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