The post-war stability system bred the very movements that challenged it
Evidence
Is it any wonder, then, that the post-war “compromise” gave rise to the civil rights and Black power struggles, to the feminist and queer movements, and to a movement for economic, political and cultural transformation among white, middle-class students, the supposedly privileged children of that very system of non-precarious bliss (Epstein 1991; Katsiaficas 1987; Ross 2002)? — Max Haiven, Cultures of Financialization, 147
Categorization
- XREF: connects to: Totalitarian movements stay in power by perpetual motion and near-total historical discontinuity — Hannah Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarianism, 741; Totalitarian movements require permanent motion and cannot survive stabilization. — Hannah Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarianism, 895; War and national crisis have both fueled and sapped the environmental movement’s political force — Richard J. Lazarus, The Making of Environmental Law, 1093
Broader Connections
- Totalitarian movements stay in power by perpetual motion and near-total historical discontinuity
#contradicts(0.75) — Hannah Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarianism, 741 - Totalitarian movements require permanent motion and cannot survive stabilization.
#contradicts(0.75) — Hannah Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarianism, 895