PTC’s crisis analysis anticipated Thatcherism’s contradictory authoritarian and neoliberal template

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 (#responds-to, via linked claim)

Categorization

  • XREF: connects to: Thatcherism fused free-market individualism with ethnic nationalism and authoritarian policing; Reading a conjuncture’s populist roots early enabled accurate prediction of Thatcherism; British politics remained dominated by Thatcherism regardless of governing party. (+4 more)

Broader Connections