Radical-right ideological themes predated and outran the economic crisis itself

Evidence

At the ideological level, however, things have moved at a rather different tempo; in certain respects they predate the economic aspects. Many of the key themes of the radical Right—law and order, the need for social discipline and authority in the face of a conspiracy by the enemies of the state, the onset of social anarchy, the “enemy within,” the dilution of British stock by alien black elements—had been well articulated before the full dimensions of the economic recession were revealed. They emerged in relation to the radical movements and political polarizations of the 1960s, for which “1968” must stand as a convenient, though inadequate, notation. — Hall, Stuart, Essential Essays, Volume 1, 1101

At the ideological level, however, things have moved at a rather different tempo; in certain respects they predate the economic aspects. Many of the key themes of the radical Right—law and order, the need for social discipline and authority in the face of a conspiracy by the enemies of the state, the onset of social anarchy, the “enemy within,” the dilution of British stock by alien black elements—had been well articulated before the full dimensions of the economic recession were revealed. They emerged in relation to the radical movements and political polarizations of the 1960s, for which “1968” must stand as a convenient, though inadequate, notation. — Hall, Stuart, Essential Essays, Volume 1, 1101

Categorization

• XREF: Challenges economic-determinist accounts of the rise of the Right; connects to Hall’s earlier arguments about the relative autonomy of ideology and to Piketty-style critiques that treat the Right as a purely economic reflex. — connects to: The 2008 crisis strengthened rather than weakened the political right — Philip Mirowski, Never Let a Serious Crisis Go to Waste, 8; Trauma alone does not explain right-extremist voting; economic decline does — Manuel Borutta and Jan C. Jansen, Vertriebene and Pieds-Noirs in Postwar…, 847; Media scapegoating, not economic loss alone, drove post-crisis Nazi radicalization (+1 more)
• DEEPTHINKING: This reverses a common leftist assumption that ideology follows economics — half the thesis of the whole Thatcherism analysis.
• QUESTION: A useful counterexample to crude economic determinism in explaining political shifts — worth comparing with how Hall treats the autonomy of ideology elsewhere.
• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — Hall, Stuart, Essential Essays, Volume 1, 1101