Ideology shapes economic crisis rather than merely reflecting it

Evidence

The ideology of the radical Right is less an “expression” of economic recession than the recession’s condition of existence. Ideological factors have effects on and for the social formation as a whole—including effects on the economic crisis itself and how it is likely to be politically resolved. — Hall, Stuart, Essential Essays, Volume 1, 1094

Categorization

Category: Contrarian or Surprising Claims

• XREF: Central to Hall’s Gramscian framework; connects to his critique of economism in other essays and to Althusser’s relative autonomy of the superstructure.
• SEED: Angle for an essay: how the Right’s ideology actively constructs the terms by which recessions get experienced and resolved — ideology as precondition, not byproduct.

Related

• Right-wing ideology enables the recession rather than merely reflecting it (similarity 0.94)
• The radical Right’s ideological themes preceded the economic recession. (similarity 0.88)
• Radical-right ideological themes predated and outran the economic crisis itself (similarity 0.88)
• The Rightward swing is a constructed response to crisis, not its reflection (similarity 0.86)
• PTC’s crisis analysis anticipated Thatcherism’s contradictory authoritarian and neoliberal template (similarity 0.86)
• Ideologies can shatter traditional ideas and empower new ones in a receptive class (similarity 0.81)
• Economic structures are necessary but not sufficient to explain political and ideological features (similarity 0.79)
• A deep organic crisis forces the Right to construct rather than merely reflect responses (similarity 0.79)
• Economic change does not directly supply the content of capitalist ideas (similarity 0.78)
• Britain’s postwar radical program collapsed under 1960s economic deterioration (similarity 0.78)
• Ideology represents imaginary relations to real conditions of existence (similarity 0.78)
• Political rightward shifts are constructed responses to organic crises, not mere reflections (similarity 0.78)
• Without a concept of ideology, culture’s role in reproducing production cannot be grasped. (similarity 0.78)

Broader Connections

• The radical Right’s ideological themes preceded the economic recession. #corroborates (0.80) — Hall, Stuart, Essential Essays, Volume 1, 1101