Populiści w poszukiwaniu tożsamości – ideologiczne inspiracje Samoobrony (1991–2007)
Populists in the search of identity – the ideological inspirations of Samoobrona (1991–2007)

Summary/Abstract: The aim of this paper is to identify the sources of Samoobrona’s ideologyand its sociological determinants. Samoobrona was born in the early 90s as a gras-sroots populist protest movement based mainly on farmers, but it also recruitedother excluded groups like the urban unemployed and unskilled workers. The com-mon enemies of this social coalition were foreign (especially German) capitalists,who were identified as the principal beneficiaries of privatization, therefore theideology of agrarianism evolved quickly into a kind of radical nationalism combinedwith post-Communist sentiments. In the late 90s Samoobrona also won the supportof the petty bourgeoisie and transformed into a parliamentary party. Samoobronathus became a more moderate political force with a social democratic program. Thelast phase of the evolution was so-called “social liberalism” (in fact national liberalism)– the ideology of petty national bourgeoisie.

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