disClosure: A Journal of Social Theory Volume 29 Populism Article 8 7-2020 Nationalpopulism, Right and Left: The Social-National Synthesis Today Daniel Rueda King’s College London, UK DOI: https://doi.org/10.13023/disclosure.29.07 Follow this and additional works at: https://uknowledge.uky.edu/disclosure Part of the Political Science Commons This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial 4.0 License. Recommended Citation Rueda, Daniel (2020) "Nationalpopulism, Right and Left: The Social-National Synthesis Today," disClosure: A Journal of Social Theory: Vol. 29 , Article 8. DOI: https://doi.org/10.13023/disclosure.29.07 Available at: https://uknowledge.uky.edu/disclosure/vol29/iss1/8 This Article is brought to you for free and open access by disClosure: A Journal of Social Theory. Questions about the journal can be sent to
[email protected] disClosure: A Journal of Social Theory Vol. 29, July 2020 Nationalpopulism, Right and Left: The Social-National Synthesis Today. Daniel Rueda, King’s College London For most of the postwar period the idea of merging socialist (or popular) and nationalist elements was marginal in Europe. But in the last two decades we have been witnessing a new form of social-national synthesis: nationalpopulism. This article examines this resurgence by comparing right-wing nationalpopulism and left-wing nationalpopulism. In order to do so, it focuses on four European countries: France, Italy, Greece and Spain. While there are both policy and discursive similarities between these two forms of nationalpopulism, this article argues that they are fundamentally different and belong to antagonistic ideological factions.