RADİKAL DEMOKRASİ BAĞLAMINDA SOL POPÜLİZMİN İMKÂNI
THE POSSIBILITY OF A LEFT POPULISM IN THE CONTEXT OF RADICAL DEMOCRACY

Summary/Abstract: This study will focus on the possibility of radicalizing democracy in the context of Chantal Mouffe's "Left Populist Strategy". Mouffe states that after World War II, the agonistic tension between democracy and liberalism dissipated against democracy with Thatcherism and that the political one's was replaced by technocratic politics. Mouffe claims that the consensus of post-political mediocre, which eliminated the differences between center-right and center-left policies, has been questioned by the global financial crisis that erupted in 2008. Mouffe states that the neoliberal crisis created a 'populist moment'. This moment suggests that left populism is an opportunity to intervene in massification in a right-populist form through anti-popular and political elites. Mouffe states that left populism is not an ideology, but a political logic and strategy in the process of building a new counterhegemony. It also rejects pejorative literature that evaluates populism through anti-democracy with an essentialist approach. However, Mouffe is subjected to criticism that the alternative to right populism cannot be left populism and that every populist model will result in a vertical democracy.

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