ON MACEDINIAN BIOPOLITICS

Populist Dictatorship and Transition

Abstract

Concerning populism, one can set aside and consider several starting analytical positions!
For example, one can analyze it as a phenomenon of some historical period, context, or social
formation: populism in Europe, in the 1930s, fascism, the populism in Latin America, or
populism of national liberation of decolonization, etc. Likewise, one can analyze populism in a
symptomatic or phenomenological manner – by analyzing some of the political techniques, tools,
and relations that populism establishes on politics, how populism formulates the notion of “the
people”, attitude towards the elites, towards the status quo of the institutions of the parliamentary
democracy, attitude towards the political mythology and history, the manner in which populism
formulates leadership in politics, attitude towards elections and pluralism.