ABSTRACT
Chapter 4 concentrates on the German case of the Party of Democratic Socialism. This is the party that pioneers the radical European left’s populist experience while maintaining some characteristics typical of the traditional radical left (e.g. attention to social justice), but adding to these a powerful anti-establishment charge, conceived for the most part among the citizens of the former East Germany and the ruling class of the former West Germany. More recently, Die Linke (The Left), heir to the PDS, sets in motion a process of re-articulation which partly maintains and partly renews the characteristics attributed to its ancestor party.
