The New Right consolidated unnoticed while the left focused on itself

Evidence

At one stage in the film, Marker’s commentary ruefully notes that while revolutionaries, failed revolutionaries and ex-revolutionaries devoted all their attention to the formation of the New Left, the New Right was coalescing, unnoticed. Cue images of Valery Giscard D’estaing playing football in a carefully-cultivated attempt to look sporty and modern. The PR director of Citroën muses on the “science of management” (too complicated, he says, for even the most talented Union member to master) and looks forward to the incorporation of leftist desire into Capital that would become post-Fordism. — Mark Fisher (edited by Darren Ambrose), K-Punk, 483

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: The Right gains ground partly because of what the Left does within limits. — Hall, Stuart, Essential Essays, Volume 1, 1130; The same rhetorical repetition fortified the right while further delegitimating the left — Philip Mirowski, Never Let a Serious Crisis Go to Waste, 24; The Right’s rise depends structurally on the Left’s failure in power. (+2 more)

Broader Connections

• The Right gains ground partly because of what the Left does within limits. #corroborates (0.80) — Hall, Stuart, Essential Essays, Volume 1, 1130
• The Right’s rise depends structurally on the Left’s failure in power. #expands (0.80)
• The same rhetorical repetition fortified the right while further delegitimating the left #corroborates (0.72) — Philip Mirowski, Never Let a Serious Crisis Go to Waste, 24
• Neglected left-wing issues get usurped by right-wing political figures #exemplifies (0.72) — Naomi Klein, Doppelganger, 408