Right-wing populism blames minorities for a value decay caused by capitalism

Evidence

This is not merely an academic point, and the complaint that the world has become too possessed by economic and materialistic values is not only the property of left-wing malcontents. The neoliberal collapse of all social values into economic value can be heard in churches, mosques and temples around the world, and it is a key plank of new forms of ethnic nationalism and right-wing populism, all of which argue that we need to “return” to a fabled time when (family, religious, national, etc.) values were better aligned. All too often in these cases the decay of social values is blamed on convenient minorities, rather than the broader economic system that is the real cause (see Haiven 2014, 31–35). — Max Haiven, Cultures of Financialization, 348

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to moral-panic literature (Cohen) and to how economic decline gets cannibalized as identity politics. — connects to: Right-wing populism operates on genuinely material contradictions; Post-communist neoliberalization widens inequality and targets visible minorities as scapegoats — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race: Reflections on…, 913; Declining ex-imperial societies scapegoat minorities to explain their problems (+6 more)

Broader Connections

• Declining ex-imperial societies scapegoat minorities to explain their problems #corroborates (0.82)
• Economic precarity of the lower middle class fueled sudden antisemitism #exemplifies (0.82) — Hannah Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarianism, 141
• Right-wing populism operates on genuinely material contradictions #expands (0.80)
• Post-communist neoliberalization widens inequality and targets visible minorities as scapegoats #corroborates (0.78) — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race, 913
• Right-wing ideology enables the recession rather than merely reflecting it #expands (0.75) — Hall, Stuart, Essential Essays, Volume 1, 1094
• Unequal austerity generates populism, nationalism, and violent movement instead of revenue #expands (0.75) — Mark Blyth, Austerity, 63
• Ethnic divisions within a working class can be exploited to strengthen capitalist rule #complicates (0.72)