SOC 2080 Lecture 3: SOC2080 Week 3 Jan 24 Lecture Notes

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Shift of agrarian protest to the west: prairie populism. Populism: a core phenomenon of canadian political life both historically and today. Mixers core political ideologies of socialism, liberalism, conservatism. Opposition to elites (political and/or economic), advocates more power to the people , the producers of society . Focus on capitalist elites and their allies in mainstream political parties (liberals and conservatives) Favour active govt; public enterprise, strong labour movement. Often alliance b/w farm folk and blue collar working class. The people as coalition of farmers, workers, the poor, progressive intellectuals. Hostile to political elites, state bureaucrats (big govt), special interests . State intervention, occasionally financial interests (case of nazism) Individualism, libertarianism, private initiative vs. state or public initiatives. Aberhart s social credit in alb, duplessis and union nationale party (quebec), reform party in 1990s. What are the roots of the right and left wing populism.

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