The Right’s rise depends structurally on the Left’s failure in power.

Evidence

Power alone is in no way a sufficient condition for its self-realization (i.e. as if it would be up to its force to force itself). The power of power cannot be attributed once more to power. Rather it needs fundamental analysis from the point of view of evolution theory and systems theory, if one wishes to explain on what societal-structural conditions the development and institutionalization of more abstract, more effective media-codes depend. — Niklas Luhmann, Trust and Power, 743 (#complicates, via linked claim)

Categorization

Category: Causal Relationships

Related

• Power cannot self-realize but depends on societal-structural conditions for legitimacy (similarity 0.82)
• The right out-organized the left in grassroots antipolitics mobilization. (similarity 0.79)
• Power can be increased only when its own overthrow is institutionalized (similarity 0.78)
• Structural social problems arise from non-politicized power, not overthrow of rulers (similarity 0.78)
• A left-populist’s trajectory depends on the fate of its social democratic rival (similarity 0.78)

Broader Connections

• Power cannot self-realize but depends on societal-structural conditions for legitimacy #complicates (0.82) — Niklas Luhmann, Trust and Power, 743
• The Rightward swing is a constructed response to crisis, not its reflection #complicates (0.65)