Talk:Left-wing populism

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"Not all Ukrainian left-wing populists oppose Russian imperial domination over their country, however. In 1993, the Communist Party of Ukraine was founded by Petro Symonenko, a former apparatchik of the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic, an imperial province within the Soviet empire consisting of modern-day Ukraine. Generally, the party is not considered a new party, but rather a continuation of the Soviet-era Communist Party of Ukraine, the same one which oversaw the implementation of the Holodomor. The party primarily opposed decommunization laws, and usually is considered not really communist but rather a kind of conservative pro-Russian party that likes the aesthetic of Soviet communism and the Soviet Union. In this sense, it isn't radically different from the Communist Party of the Russian Federation, and the degree to which the CPU got its barking orders from the CPRF is somewhat disputed. Following the Revolution of Dignity, the Communist Party of Ukraine lost popular support due to its pro-Yanukovych stance, especially after it voted for the anti-protest laws, which were universally seen as a major step in democratic backsliding. The role of the Communist Party of Ukraine in financing Donbass separatist movements and the Donetsk and Luhansk People's Republic has been questionable at best, with credible reports of the party providing some materiel support to theses terrorists, though this is denied by the CPU. After showing support for Putin following Russia's unprovoked invasion of Ukraine in 2022, the Communist Party of Ukraine, alongside other pro-Soviet or pro-Putin political parties, were banned by the Ukrainian government." 171.232.183.217 (talk) 15:13, 18 February 2025 (UTC)

Do you have WP:RS to support this? Simonm223 (talk) 15:16, 18 February 2025 (UTC)

Section on United States- Jacksonian Democracy as Left-wing Populism?

The notion that Huey Long's Share Our Wealth plan had its roots in Jacksonian Democracy (and the claim that Jacksonian democracy was itself left-wing populist) is contentious. The source cited to support this claim is insufficient (a book about art history, written by an art historian lacking expertise). Most historians of modern US political history would not characterize Jacksonian democracy as akin to modern left-wing populism or even as its progenitor except in a hugely generalized - and not too useful - way (ie, yes, Jacksonians saw elite power in the form of the national Bank as contrary to the interests of the common people, or rather white yeomen farmers and tradesmen). The sources used to support the argument that Jacksonian Democracy was left-wing populist do not really make that argument at all: viewed historically, early to mid 1800s classical radicalism was neither necessarily left wing nor populist in the more-modern post-1890s senses. Asserting this tenuous connection between Long's Share Our Wealth and Jacksonian radicalism ignores the huge shifts in political economy from ~1820s to ~1890s that were necessary preconditions for the emergence of left-wing populism by the early 1890s (in the form of the Populists and the People's Party). This all shows that the US section has a problem with historical scope: do we keep references to early 1800s political movements and formations (like Jacksonian Democracy) and these rather contentious connections between Huey Long and Jacksonian Democracy, or do we start with post-1890s US history (and thus begin with Populism and the People's Party c. 1890s)? The latter is far preferable if we want to stick with how historians of US political history construe the historical roots of left-wing populism in the US as a modern formation. Zgreenb (talk) 08:23, 30 April 2026 (UTC)