Extremism of the centre is a term in sociology introduced by Seymour Martin Lipset.
This added a new type to the extremism of the left and right, and explained fascism as a typically middle-class movement.
According to Winkler, Lipset's theory, in which people who see their status as at risk are prone to supporting right-wight extremist movements, is very influential within this research.
[6] The socioeconomic analysis Hitlers Wähler (1991) by Jürgen W. Falter puts the middle class thesis of the rise of Nazism into perspective.
[2] In the 1990s, the term became a political buzzword in Germany, which was used alongside a criticism of society in general.