Cross-party austerity orthodoxy enabled the Nazi electoral rise

Evidence

The majority party in the Reichstag, the Social Democrats, was, perversely, even more orthodox than its liberal opponents. The result was a cross-party austerity that held the doors of power open, and the Nazis walked right through them. — Mark Blyth, Austerity, 556

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to the argument that austerity as consensus politics, not one party’s doing, explains its persistence — relevant to Mattei’s account of policy-making. — connects to: Repeated austerity and SPD rigidity did more to empower Hitler than inflation memory — Mark Blyth, Austerity: The History of a Dangerous…, 533; Nazi election propaganda attacked austerity and endorsed job creation over capital investment — Mark Blyth, Austerity: The History of a Dangerous…, 532; German hyperinflation was unrelated to the later austerity that enabled fascism — Mark Blyth, Austerity: The History of a Dangerous…, 556 (+10 more)

Broader Connections

• Austerity in Weimar Germany crippled labor and enabled Nazi takeover #corroborates (1.00) — Clara E. Mattei, Escape from Capitalism, 234
• State connivance drove fascism’s rise from marginal to mass scale #qualifies (0.80) — Antonio Gramsci, Selections from the Prison Notebooks, 107
• Fascist austerity dismantled postwar gains and re-separated economics from politics #qualifies (0.75) — Clara E. Mattei, Escape from Capitalism, 193
• Liberal austerity and fascist repression converged in a shared coercive project #qualifies (0.72) — Clara E. Mattei, The Capital Order, 1070
• Totalitarian movements superseded and outlasted the European party system #expands (0.72) — Hannah Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarianism, 666