in one of my final seminars we discussed #Balibar and the impact of #LeftPopulism on real politics.
turns out none (!) of my (European, Dutch) students had ever heard of either #Podemos or #SYRIZA. they knew #Fidesz and #PiS, but left populism was a primarily theoretical concept to them.
@clintunplugged@politicaltheory@philosophy I would argue that as your students didn’t know about left populism is the reason they needed your class. They were unaware of it probably because of the media bias. Podemos has frequently framed the need to expand the populism framework.