By Hans-Georg Betz
Studies the hot West eu events of the unconventional populist correct, arguing that, in distancing themselves from the reactionary politics of the normal extremist correct, those events became an important problem to the verified constitution and politics of West ecu democracy today.
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The industrial revolution gave rise to new conflicts. The first conflict set landowning, agrarian interests against the emerging urban, industrial bour- 34 RADICAL RIGHT-WING POPULISM IN WESTERN EUROPE geoisie; the second pitted the interests of capital against those of the working class. Once established, these cleavages proved enduring and continued to shape electoral politics, even after the original conditions, which had led to their emergence and establishment, had vanished for a long time.
Until 1928, the Nazis thus maintained a dual electoral strategy, which combined a social-revolutionary appeal to the anticapitalist sentiments of working-class voters with vehement assaults on Marxism and particularly Bolshevism designed to respond to middle-class anxieties. 26 RADICAL RIGHT-WING POPULISM IN WESTERN EUROPE By 1928, however, the party leadership recognized that its urban, workingclass oriented strategy had largely failed. In response, it decided to shift attention to the rural electorate and the urban middle class.
Thus forcing individuals to advertise the individuality and uniqueness of their accomplishments. Self-promotion and the ability of self-discovery and existence design have become important preconditions for success in the postindustrial age. What enhances these tendencies is the rapid advance offree markets following the collapse of Soviet-style, centrally controlled economies. As Herbert Kitschelt has pointed out, markets "enable individuals to act on self-regarding preferences, because they stimulate the self-attribution of success and failure" (Kitschelt, 1993, p.