The Populist Party

[CCCPneubauten]

The Populist Party (USA) (http://www.populistamerica.com/home)

Not to sure what to say...not a fan off all the flags on here but I agree with populism fully.

Any thoughts on this Party? (And no they don't have anything to do with that David Duke guy)

[Guest1]

The problems in America go far deeper than a few constitutional amendments.

[CCCPneubauten]

You can vote for what ever change you want. That's the beauty...

[Janus]

The Populist Party had great influence back in the late 19th century particularly in the Great Plains regions. Even then they simply wanted to reform the US government and were reactionary to a certain degree as can be seen by their xenophobic attitudes. Their policies had an influence back then but as Che Y Marijuana said, the time for small changes within the system is over. The Populists simply have never gone far enough in their policies.

[Hiero]

Populism is a very wide political ideology. For instances Pauline Hanson's One Nation party in Australia is considered populist. It addressed many issues that some Australians had. This happened to be to tighten immigration and rolling back many wins that the Aboriginal people had made. While in the economy aspect, promoted tarrifs and the stop of economic rationalism.

This is considered populism because it had policies that many average Australians wanted and that other parties weren't touching. So it was a party that represented a neglected population.

Then in other countries or different eras you can have a populist party that latches itself on to other political movements. Chavez's movement in Venezeula can be considered populist.

I don't think we should be pushing for populism, we should always push for worker organisation and anti imperialism organisation. We need to build policies from Marxist analysis and become more revolutionary in our policies as the working organisations become more revolutionary. Rather then creating policies which catches the current mood and talk about about vague ideas like populist movements do.

[which doctor]

I didn't even know this party was still around. We just got done studying them in history class. I thought they fizzled out.

[CCCPneubauten]

Same name, but not ideals. The one that was in your APUSH class was xenophobic, racist, ect...not a good bunch of folks but hey...it is interesting to talk about.

[Jesus Christ!]

Originally posted by Fist of [email protected] 12 2006, 04:07 AM
I didn't even know this party was still around. We just got done studying them in history class. I thought they fizzled out.
Pretty much what I was going to say as well. The funny this is while learning about them in ap I was thinking, " I wish something like this still existed, that would have as much effect now as it did then." Intresting though they seem pretty reasonable to me.

[Martin Blank]

Originally posted by Fist of [email protected] 11 2006, 11:07 PM
I didn't even know this party was still around. We just got done studying them in history class. I thought they fizzled out.
The Populist Party you studied in school melded into the Democrats before the turn of the 20th century. This party is, if I recall correctly, an outgrowth of the Nader campaign in 2004.

Miles

[Nothing Human Is Alien]

You mean the anti-immigrant, pro-capitalist Nader campaign of 2004?

[CCCPneubauten]

I am pretty sure this is a new thing, with roots back to the Populist Party of the gold standard age, but seems that these guys are smarter...and they know that if they start running in elections they will fail and that as a third party they need to build base first.

Great idea for all other parties outside the Republicrat domain.

[Nothing Human Is Alien]

I'm not interested in "other parties" unless they are working class parties.

[bolshevik butcher]

Interesting, not working class but still reasnobly progressive.