Pan-movements’ naming as movements exploited widespread distrust of parties

Evidence

The decisive invention of the pan-movements, therefore, was not that they too claimed to be outside and above the party system, but that they called themselves “movements,” their very name alluding to the profound distrust for all parties that was already widespread in Europe at the turn of the century — Hannah Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarianism, 634

Categorization

Category: Definitional Content

• DEFINE: The movement-vs-party distinction named explicitly - a definitional building block for understanding populist mass politics.
• XREF: Connects to the imagined-community and populism literature the reader will meet in later Islamophobia readings.

Related

• The term movement signified distrust of all party politics (similarity 0.92)
• Pan-movements prefigured totalitarianism by discarding imperialist snobbery and exploiting hatred of representative institutions. (similarity 0.84)
• Movements differ from parties by making ideology an organizing principle (similarity 0.80)
• Movements outlast parties because perpetual motion replaces fixed goals and programs (similarity 0.80)
• Pan-movements mobilized liberal tactics and popular-democracy rhetoric for race ends (similarity 0.80)
• Pan-movements united members through mood rather than defined political goals (similarity 0.79)

Broader Connections

• War of position replaced war of movement in modern democratic politics #complicates (0.72) — Antonio Gramsci, Selections from the Prison Notebooks, 912