Pan-ideologies materialized in the decaying Dual Monarchy as contempt for government

Evidence

But what in Germany and Russia remained only high-sounding phrases up to the end of the first World War, had a real enough aspect in the Dual Monarchy whose decay generated a permanent spiteful contempt for the government. — Hannah Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarianism, 601

Categorization

  • XREF: The decaying Habsburg empire as the site where abstract pan-ideology became concrete — relevant to the imagined-community and nation-building toolkit.