In specific context of the Soviet Union, the threat of German expansion and Soviet/Slavic annihilation are/were powerful weapons to insure belief in an alternative future. While Leninist political sentiment may have been the catalyst for the revolution, what held the nation together during famine and material paucity was the existential threat to their existence.
American threats in the 50s and 60s were a galvanizing sequel to overt German aggression that had crippled an entire generation of Soviet citizens both pleb and leadership alike.
Without that sort of external enemy propaganda the readily apparent corruption of the Soviet system became unsupportable and would have likely collapsed much sooner.
The existential creep of Muslim dominance is of similar value to some in the West now. It works well in concert with the fear of dilution of labour supply with Mexican immigration.
The collectivist under pinnings of white supremacy in the united States and Christian nationalism in Western Europe are interesting because of their parallels to the national socialist movement of germany of the 20s and 30s which was inherently anti-capitalist in nature. many early labour organizations that strictly limited membership by race and in the cases of places like South Africa were strongly supportive of racist government policies that restricted labour of minorities, artificially restricting the supply of labour. The same can be said of some of America's early prominent socialists as well.
Specifically in the united States you appear to have labour leaders 'flipping' to the GOP as the GOP continues to abandon long held core beliefs about free market capitalism in favour of a return to pre-regulatory monopolies.
What is unclear is whether this zeal to return to the bad old days mixed with a seeming return of some of the environmental hazards of the bad old days will see an equal and opposite resistance like we saw in American society in the 30s. There will have to be some kind of overarching, galvanizing obstacle or enemy to keep this loose coalition together in the way the Soviets had the German and then American boogyman, otherwise the ready corruptness will hollow out the political structure in a similar vein to what happened in the Soviet Union.
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