American capitalism’s untarnished appeal defused ethnocentrism’s demand as an outlet.

Evidence

In a country supposed to be a land of unlimited opportunities, socialism had never achieved anything like the importance it had in European countries. The attractiveness of capitalism was virtually untainted. To this extent, capitalism did not need ethnocentrism as an outlet for frustration and resentment. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 444

Categorization

• XREF: Echoes the broader thesis that where class resentment has no socialist channel, it is less available for ethnocentric displacement — relevant to later work on American exceptionalism. — connects to: American capitalism’s appeal made ethnocentric fascist ideology less necessary there — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 1802; American immigrant workers aspired to become capitalists rather than a laboring class; Americanism is not a new civilisation but an intensified extension of European capitalism — Antonio Gramsci, Selections from the Prison Notebooks, 1162 (+1 more)
• yield-rescued: below the book’s yield-target cutoff, included anyway for connecting to: American capitalism’s appeal made ethnocentric fascist ideology less necessary there — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 1802; American immigrant workers aspired to become capitalists rather than a laboring class; Americanism is not a new civilisation but an intensified extension of European capitalism — Antonio Gramsci, Selections from the Prison Notebooks, 1162 (+1 more)

Broader Connections

• American capitalism’s appeal made ethnocentric fascist ideology less necessary there #corroborates (0.95) — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 1802
• New Right ideology framed American capitalism as imperiled by communist enemies #complicates (0.75) — Katherine Stewart, The Power Worshippers, 239