Populism and Republican Jurisprudence

The antagonistic relation of “Populism vs. the New Class” has been prefigured in Paul Piccone's and G.L. Ulmen's article on European unification. There, populism is understood in terms of autonomous organic communities' resistance to the New Class' centralizing logic of domination. They argue that in the US the populist struggle “to resist capitalist manipulation and New Class domination” has been lost. But in Europe a genuine populist democracy could become possible by “recycling European jurisprudence and the original American federalist model.” Indeed, Piccone and Ulmen claim that “the most likely paradigm for a unified Europe will be a federal structure similar to the one provided by the American constitution, which has Romanist origins and, as such, already embodies the spirit of European jurisprudence.”

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