| Titre | POPULISMUS, POPULISTISCH : LA VERSION ALLEMANDE | |
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| Auteur | Pierre Ayçoberry | |
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Revue |
20 & 21. Revue d'histoire Titre à cette date : Vingtième siècle, revue d'histoire |
| Numéro | no 56, octobre-décembre 1997 Les populismes | |
| Rubrique / Thématique | LES POPULISMES |
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| Page | 105-114 | |
| Résumé anglais | Populismus, populstisch: the German variable, Pierre Ayçoberry. Probably Anglo-Saxon originally, the term Populismus appeared in German vocabulary in the early 1980s. But its genesis becomes clearer through the semantic evolution of the concept of Volk in the political vocabulary starting at the end of the Bismarckian era. Because of the crisis fueled by the rapid changes of German society, the term became weighted with a nationalist, anti-Semitic and anti-capitalist meaning. The First World War definitively promoted the people to the rank of "Supreme Being" and the term volkisch (racist) was fed on the crisis brought on by the defeat. If Nazism is first of all presented as a form of populism, its racist and artistocratic content could only lead to a betrayal of the people with which it claimed to identify. Rejected by a majority in both post-war Germanies, the populist theme and its racist connotations persisted, however, in far-right movements, and the CDU fed on its right the Bavarian populism of Franz Josef Strauss and the CSU. At the other end of the political fan, the "New social movements" that came out of 1968 carried an original populism in its desire to reconcile the Enlightenment and political romanticism, before the collapse of East German gave birth, with the PDS, to a left populism fed by the frustrations due to reunification. | |
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