Timothy Speed (2025)
This paper analyzes poverty not as a marginal social condition or individual failure, but as a structurally produced form of vulnerability within the German welfare state. Introducing the concept of povertism, it argues that poverty is actively manufactured through administrative practices, normative classifications, and conditional welfare regimes that systematically expose affected individuals to instability, stigma, and coercion.
Drawing on political theory, critical disability studies, and empirical material from welfare administration, the paper shows how classism and functional right-wing radicalism operate not primarily through explicit ideology, but through bureaucratic normalization, punitive conditionality, and the depoliticization of structural harm. Poverty appears as a governance technology that disciplines deviation while maintaining the appearance of social neutrality.
This paper functions as an interface text within a larger operator-based research corpus. Core concepts are applied here, not re-derived. The underlying research operates in a non-linear, rhythmically recursive epistemic mode grounded in an autistic form of structural perception; the present text provides an interface translation for academic contexts.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.17998234
Keywords: poverty, povertism, classism, welfare state, right-wing radicalism, structural vulnerability, social policy, bureaucratic violence
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