Bolívar y Chávez. Historical and Religious Foundations of Chavez’s Populism

Authors

  • Javier Rodríguez Martínez UNED
DOI: https://doi.org/10.6018/sh.488391
Keywords: populism, chavismo, charismatic mode of domination, religion and politics, cuadilism

Abstract

For more than two decades, Venezuelan politics has been marked by the presence of Chavismo as the country's revolutionary orientation. Regardless of the fact that nowadays this policy is recognized as a failed policy that has caused the exodus of millions of Venezuelans, this policy was aimed in its first at the political, social and economic transformation of the nation in pursuit of the so-called socialism of the 21st century. It is precisely in this first period that we are going to concentrate. If we define populism in the strict sense as that form of mass politics that starts from the idea of the existence of a popular will and the existence of a charismatic mode of domination based on the direct link between the leader and the masses, Chavismo was a populist phenomenon. In this article I show, based on biographical writings, interviews and speeches, the adequacy of the Venezuelan case to the proposed definition and its religious and historical foundations.

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Author Biography

Javier Rodríguez Martínez, UNED

Javier Rodríguez Martínez es Profesor Titular de Sociología desde 1996. Ha

publicado numerosos artículos y traducciones sobre Max Weber, además de

otros sobre Cambio Social y Metodología de las Ciencias Sociales. En la

actualidad está preparando los capítulos sobre Marx y Max Weber para un

manual de Historia de la teoría sociológica que pronto será publicado por la

editorial Síntesis.

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Published
02-08-2021
How to Cite
Rodríguez Martínez, J. (2021). Bolívar y Chávez. Historical and Religious Foundations of Chavez’s Populism. Historical Sociology, 11(1), 219–246. https://doi.org/10.6018/sh.488391