New social movements’ non-economic grievances fueled the right, not the left

Evidence

If Thatcherism was successful it is in pan because it was able to rearticulate in its favour the popular resentment against the shoncomings of social democracy. The deficiencies of traditional social democracy were due to their lack of understanding of the forms of subordination which were not principally of an economic nature. This is why the emergence of the new social movements were a defining moment in the crisis of the socialdemocratic model. In many countries this favoured the right, which was able to take advantage of that crisis to mobilize suppon for the nco-liberal backlash against the wel&re state. It would be foolish to believe. therefore, that the solution to our current problems could be the return to a Keynesian socialdemocratic model. even when envisaged at the European level. What we need today is some form of ‘post-social-democratic politics’, on condition that this does not mean regressing IHhina social democracy to some pre-socia1-democratic liberal view but going funher towards a more radical and pluralist type of democracy. — Chantal Mouffe, The Democratic Paradox, 540

Categorization

• QUESTION: Mouffe claims the new social movements ‘favoured the right’ in many countries — worth testing against, e.g., the differing trajectories in Scandinavia or the endurance of social democracy there.
• XREF: connects to: Right-wing groups hijacked the 2013 protest repertoire with elite funding — Vincent Bevins, If We Burn: The Mass Protest Decade and…, 553; Brazil’s 2013 mass protests preceded a radical right-wing turn, not reforms — Vincent Bevins, If We Burn: The Mass Protest Decade and…, 41; Neoconservatism began as a rightward racial realignment breaking with the civil rights movement — Michael Omi, Howard Winant, Racial Formation in the United States, 56 (+2 more)

Broader Connections

• The right out-organized the left in grassroots antipolitics mobilization. #expands (0.85) — Anton Jäger, Hyperpolitics, 208
• Neoconservatism began as a rightward racial realignment breaking with the civil rights movement #corroborates (0.78) — Michael Omi, Howard Winant, Racial Formation in the United States, 56
• Brand-building leaders and rage algorithms hollowed out the left’s mass movements from within #qualifies (0.72) — Naomi Klein, Doppelganger, 1049