Post by Jaga on Jun 2, 2019 22:50:29 GMT -7
Even the left-wingers have some respect for Jaroslaw Kaczynski now. After many years in the shadow - the twin-brother and his party won another elections by getting out of his comfort zone and participating in the meetings with voters. Kaczynski showed again long-term planning, determination, had a plan how to attract low middle class and people from neglected class of the society.
Jaroslaw lost his only brother in Smolensk accident. He was never married. He is smart, although not a cosmopolitan, a lawyer who does not care for his own interest or money, but for the success of his party and his vision.
Here is an article from Balkaninsight about it:
balkaninsight.com/2019/05/24/poland-populism-and-the-seductive-power-of-kaczynski/
POLAND, POPULISM AND THE ‘SEDUCTIVE’ POWER OF KACZYNSKI
The support enjoyed by Poland’s nationalist Law and Justice Party, PiS, cannot be explained by current theories of populism being applied to the rise of the right in Europe, a Polish sociologist and MEP candidate says.
In an interview with BIRN, Maciej Gdula of the Institute of Sociology at Warsaw University argued that far from being a turn-off, the popular image of PiS leader Jaroslaw Kaczynski as an all-powerful grey cardinal, ruling the country without holding the post of either president or prime minister, is in fact “seductive” to many PiS voters.
Gdula, who is running for the European Parliament on behalf of a newly established social-liberal party called Wiosna (Spring), bases his theory on a study made among the residents of a small, anonymous town in central Poland, dubbed “Miastko” (Small Town), and published in a 2018 book called New Authoritarianism.
The book challenges the theory that the rise of right-wing populism is driven by the “losers” of global capitalism or neoliberalism, Gdula said, whose voices are not heard “because the public sphere is controlled by liberal elites who treat people who want to speak out about their suffering as incompetent, uneducated, without merit”.
“Since the left has lost its way, mainly right-wing political forces are addressing this suffering, but they are mixing it with their own agenda, which is xenophobia and nationalism. So, in this populist hypothesis, right-wing forces are growing in power not because people are xenophobic but because they suffer and only right-wing parties address their problems,” Gdula told BIRN.
“Finally, the assumption is that when the populists come to power, they continue with the old way of doing politics, which is implementing more neo-liberal policies.”
None of this, however, accurately describes what is happening in Poland, which alongside Viktor Orban’s Hungary is seen as at the vanguard of a right-wing, populist resurgence across Europe, Gdula argued.
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Jaroslaw lost his only brother in Smolensk accident. He was never married. He is smart, although not a cosmopolitan, a lawyer who does not care for his own interest or money, but for the success of his party and his vision.
Here is an article from Balkaninsight about it:
balkaninsight.com/2019/05/24/poland-populism-and-the-seductive-power-of-kaczynski/
POLAND, POPULISM AND THE ‘SEDUCTIVE’ POWER OF KACZYNSKI
The support enjoyed by Poland’s nationalist Law and Justice Party, PiS, cannot be explained by current theories of populism being applied to the rise of the right in Europe, a Polish sociologist and MEP candidate says.
In an interview with BIRN, Maciej Gdula of the Institute of Sociology at Warsaw University argued that far from being a turn-off, the popular image of PiS leader Jaroslaw Kaczynski as an all-powerful grey cardinal, ruling the country without holding the post of either president or prime minister, is in fact “seductive” to many PiS voters.
Gdula, who is running for the European Parliament on behalf of a newly established social-liberal party called Wiosna (Spring), bases his theory on a study made among the residents of a small, anonymous town in central Poland, dubbed “Miastko” (Small Town), and published in a 2018 book called New Authoritarianism.
The book challenges the theory that the rise of right-wing populism is driven by the “losers” of global capitalism or neoliberalism, Gdula said, whose voices are not heard “because the public sphere is controlled by liberal elites who treat people who want to speak out about their suffering as incompetent, uneducated, without merit”.
“Since the left has lost its way, mainly right-wing political forces are addressing this suffering, but they are mixing it with their own agenda, which is xenophobia and nationalism. So, in this populist hypothesis, right-wing forces are growing in power not because people are xenophobic but because they suffer and only right-wing parties address their problems,” Gdula told BIRN.
“Finally, the assumption is that when the populists come to power, they continue with the old way of doing politics, which is implementing more neo-liberal policies.”
None of this, however, accurately describes what is happening in Poland, which alongside Viktor Orban’s Hungary is seen as at the vanguard of a right-wing, populist resurgence across Europe, Gdula argued.
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