Since the 80s one observes the remarkable rise of the right-wing populism in Western Europe. The fact forms the background for it that the ‘golden age’ after the 2nd world war gradually came to an end toward the end of the 60s and the crisis of th...
Since the 80s one observes the remarkable rise of the right-wing populism in Western Europe. The fact forms the background for it that the ‘golden age’ after the 2nd world war gradually came to an end toward the end of the 60s and the crisis of the capital accumulation could not be overlooked any more, so that since the 80s the western societies put the neoliberal globalization forward as an answer. In this work the meaning of populism is outlined only briefly, since it was already treated in the other works of the author somewhat closer. In chapter II the work examines some aspects of the neoliberal globalisation to show then in chapter III how it led in Western Europe to the strengthening of the populist potential. The work tries in chapter IV to illustrate this by some typical examples of the Western European right-wing populism. On the basis of these considerations the work reflects in chapter V on the perspective of the Western European populism. Contrary to the standpoint which prognoses already in view of the fall of Jörg Haider and Le Pen the decline of populism in Western Europe the work comes to the conclusion that the populism in Western Europe does not only walk around the periphery of the society, but has already permeated just by means of the neoliberal discourse through its middle.