Your weekly participation in the discussion forum is the basis of your section grade (16%) as we will not be holding live sections. You are responsible for reviewing live and posted class lectures, readings, and section content provided by your TAs. Each week a prompt will be posted in a discussion forum on GauchoSpace that you must respond. Your post should be at least 150 words and incorporate course material. Please make sure to answer all parts of the prompt.

PROMPT

In recent years, the focus has been on the rise of right-wing populists. (for more on this: https://qz.com/1774201/the-global-state-of-right-wing-populism-in-2019/) However, there have also been many left-wing populist movements throughout history. As discussed in the Mudde and Kaltwasser reading, populism consists of 3 core components – the people, the elite, and the general will. Keeping this in mind, identify a left-wing populist movement that took place at some point in the last hundred years. What makes this movement a populist movement? How does this movement portray the people, the elite, and the general will? Make sure to provide a link to your source and provide a brief description of the movement as part of your response.

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