It is because the West is becoming more obvious with it’s dictatorship of capital that people are becoming more anti-establishment, anti-rich, anti-deep state, etc. Populism is the catalyst that can propel society into a new system, what matters is who leads it, the fascists or socialists, that will lead a population to right-wing populism or left-wing populism.

People who question the system will inevitably become populists, it’s the first step into questioning the established way of rule, and deciding to move towards a set of politics that demands systemic change.

When we have a prime situation, like we do in America right now, where most of the country is moving towards populist thinking, this is the perfect time for left-wing populists to rise to popularity and mobilize angry crowds to act. We seen the power of left-wing populists with the successes of Ibrahim Traoré in Burkina Faso, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva of Brazil, Evo Morales of Bolivia; people who questioned their previous administration and mobilized the masses focusing on their class issues.

No progressive, socialist or communist movement is complete without popular populists, militants, and intellectuals. The Western Left has many intellectuals, many leaders well studied in Socialist theory, along with many pseudo-intellectuals who lack study but talk too much; but what it desperately lacks is militants, those who train themselves and others for war, and popular populists.

What makes a left-wing populist different from any other left-wing person, especially an intellectual? As mentioned in the definition earlier, left-wing populists don’t focus on theory as much in their preaching unlike left-wing intellectuals. This isn’t because they may not know it, sometimes that is the case and other times it’s not. It’s largely because the masses want easily digestible and understandable language and beliefs, especially when you are directing them to see their actual enemy; and as such, you need to talk on a language they can understand without overwhelming them with calls to study specific literature. This is why, the intellectuals should teach to those who want depth, and the populists should rally the rest of society through speaking their language. Those who want to study theory will inevitably come forward, and then they’ll turn around to educate the masses as well, strengthening the left support base.

When people like myself argue for left-wing populism, and the question arises from centrists, liberals and even so-called “leftists”:

“But why populism?”

Let us point no further than the establishment’s, and liberal loyalist’s, statement’s against it:

1. Democrats, Don’t Fall for the Allure of Left-Wing Populism on the The Bulwark, November 15th, 2024 – Jonathan, who writes, incorrectly like a political illiterate (unsurprising given the poor state of American politics) that the Democrats have “moved too far to the left” and that left-wing populism isn’t the method to win the masses. A liberal who, arrogantly like the rest, paints Kamala’s campaign as flawless and Biden as the only fighter for workers despite the clear opposite.
2. Against left-wing populism on IPS, January 31st, 2019 – Thomas, a German, who I don’t know why we should entertain the opinions of Europeans on American politics, write in this piece that populism isn’t the way; that populism fails because “it relies on opposing an imagined ‘we’ with an imagined ‘them’.” It’s not “imagined” when its well documented by even those in the media themselves.
3. Leftist populism is the real threat to democracy on The Telegraph (use archive.is to view without paywall), November 23rd, 2023 – Henry argues that “Hamas-sympathising demagogues are on the march throughout Europe, and they’re not coming from the right” and “us who love Western values must back those who support them and condemn those who oppose them regardless of their ideological provenance.” Henry, despite being a Brit, argues from the same arrogance as the American liberal or conservative; that the left is a threat because they seek to undermine the capitalist system.

If the state and the capitalists who control the propaganda are coming out with pieces that are arguing against systemic justice, wealth redistribution, class war, and so on; while privately empowering right-wing populists, as we see by major corporations and wealthy nationalists aligning with Trump. It is all you need to know that left-wing populism is the catalyst to dethrone the capitalist class and empower the working class.

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