Postwar US growth and anticommunist terror were two sides of one project.

Evidence

Within the United States immediately after the war, the unprecedented capitalist growth was combined with - was, in fact, the very ~asis for - equally unprecedented levels of anticommunist mobilizations, putting in place the McCarrhyist terror in society at large, the Eisenhower-Dulles combination in charge of the state, a ‘military-industrial complex’ (Eisenhower’s own phrase) in charge of corporate capital, and the merged AFL-CIO to marginalize the radical segment of the working-class movement and to incorporate the unions into that imperialist consensus which was buttressed materially by new and spectacular levels of consumption. — Aijaz Ahmad, In Theory, 101

Categorization

• XREF: Relevant to the reader only tangentially: it grounds Ahmad’s insistence on material/class structure (labor incorporation, corporate-state fusion) that discourse-first theories obscure. Note the reader is researching Ahmad currently. — connects to: Cold War rivalry led US agencies to fund state-led socialist-style development abroad. — Philip Mirowski & Dieter Plehwe (eds.), The Road from Mont Pèlerin: The Making…, 1294; Postwar capitalist growth was the very basis for anti-communist mobilization — Aijaz Ahmad, In Theory: Nations, Classes, Literatures, 39

Broader Connections

• Postwar capitalist growth was the very basis for anti-communist mobilization #corroborates (0.85) — Aijaz Ahmad, In Theory, 39
• Cold War rivalry led US agencies to fund state-led socialist-style development abroad. #complicates (0.75) — Philip Mirowski & Dieter Plehwe (eds.), The Road from Mont Pèlerin, 1294