DEMOCRATAS TÊM MEDO DO POVO? O populismo como resistência política

O objetivo deste artigo e apresentar o populismo de esquerda como resistencia politica contra regimes estabelecidos. Para cumprir esse objetivo, o texto esta dividido em tres secoes principais. Primeiramente, discorremos acerca do atual estado das democracias liberais. Na sequencia, tratamos dos impasses teoricos e praticos do populismo para, apos, apresentar nossa visao conceitual do fenomeno, ou seja, uma logica politico-discursiva que constitui o povo antagonicamente a seus inimigos. Na ultima secao, apresentamos a nocao de vontade dos iguais, primeiramente discorrendo sobre a dualidade da igualdade: a invencao democratica da igualdade como principio e a igualdade como horizonte. A seguir, analisamos a estrutura da vontade dos iguais, um tipo especifico de populismo de esquerda, o qual entendemos ser capaz de iluminar aspectos referentes as distintas manifestacoes que tem tido lugar no mundo desde a Primavera Arabe. DO DEMOCRATS HAVE AFRAID OF PEOPLE? A defense of populism as political resistance This article aims at presenting left-wing populism as political resistance against established regimes. For that, the text is divided into three main parts. Firstly, we discuss the current situation of liberal democracies. After we treat some theoretical and practical deadlocks of populism to present our conceptual vision of this phenomenon, that is, a discursive political logic which constitutes the people antagonistically against their enemies. In the last part, we introduce the notion of the will of equals, firstly discussing the duality of equality (the democratic invention of equality as principle and equality as the horizon). Following, we analyse the structure of the will of equals, a particular type of left-wing populism, which we understand to be able to uncover aspects referring to different demonstrations that have been occurring around the World since Arab Spring. Keywords: Populism. Democracy. Political resistance. The will of equals. LES DEMOCRATES ONT-ILS PEUR DU PEUPLE? Une defense du populisme comme resistance politique Cet article vise a presenter le populisme de gauche comme resistance politique contre les regimes etablis. Pour cela, le texte est divise en trois parties principales. Tout d’abord, nous discutons de la situation actuelle des democraties liberales. Apres,nous traitons certaines impasses theoriques et pratiques du populisme pour presenter notre vision conceptuelle de ce phenomene, il s’agit, une logique politique discursive qui constitue le peuple de maniere antagoniste contre ses ennemis. Dans la derniere partie, nous introduisons la notion de volonte des egaux, en abordant d’abord la dualite de l’egalite (la invention democratique de l’egalite comme principe et de l’egalite comme horizon). Nous analysons ensuite la structure de la volonte des egaux, un type particulier de populisme de gauche, que nous pensons pouvoir decouvrir des aspects faisant reference aux differentes manifestations qui se sont deroulees dans le monde depuis le Printemps arabe. Mots-cles: Populisme. Democratie. Resistance politique. Volonte des egaux.