Internationalist uniformity prevented communist parties from becoming populist.

Evidence

The small sects which, even today, consider themselves local sections of imaginary ‘Internationals’ are nothing but the reductio ad absurdum of this anti-populist trend of the Communist tradition. — Ernesto Laclau, On Populist Reason, 364

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Universalist populisms are possible when demands cut across ethnic identities. — Ernesto Laclau, On Populist Reason, 389