Traditional right has always defended capitalism as its core ideology, but this position is changing. The far-right has discovered a new strategy that allows it to criticize capitalism without effectively abandoning its fundamental principles.
What is at stake is no longer the old dichotomy between State and market, between state intervention and free enterprise. That binary choice belongs to an outdated political debate that contemporary far-right considers surpassed.
The real question that the far-right now raises is different: it is about knowing who controls the State and for whom the market functions. In other words, instead of rejecting capitalism, what matters is determining who benefits from the existing economic system.
This approach allows the far-right to present itself as critical of the system without altering its capitalist essence, combining anti-establishment rhetoric with market-friendly policies, as long as it serves its interests and those of its supporters.
