Are Syriza progressive reformers or cynical populists?

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When we look at populist and eurosceptic movements in Europe we normally focus on their striking ideology.

Populists of the Right are seen as ideologues of nationalism. Populists of the Left, as ideologues of class war. Their common thread is their deployment of a collective ‘we’ as the subject of political and social life. The populists speak from the first person plural. They normally express their anger at injustice committed to ‘us’ by ‘them’. They thus reject some established political order or settlement.