The mid-1990s postpolitical mood discredited struggle and collectivist rights talk

Evidence

The rumor was going around that politics was dead. The advent of a “new world order” was declared. The end of History was nigh … The word “struggle” was discredited as a throwback to Marxism, become an object of ridicule. As for “defending rights,” the first that came to mind were those of the consumer. — Anton Jäger, Hyperpolitics, 62

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Postwar libertarian sentiment turned the sixties generation against older movement hierarchies — Vincent Bevins, If We Burn: The Mass Protest Decade and…, 85