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In recent years, we have witnessed a very clear rise of right-wing movements around the world and a gradual rightward shift in global politics. This transformation, observed in different regions from Europe to America, Latin America to Turkey, manifests itself in phenomena such as the spread of authoritarian state practices and the implementation of anti-immigration policies. The broad evidence suggests that these transformations are not merely a temporary trend but rather a structural redefinition of the political arena. Consequently, these developments are at the center of contemporary political and academic debates and are being analyzed through various conceptual frameworks. The complex literature at hand displays a wide conceptual diversity; this diversity also leads to significant analytical uncertainties. It examines how the current shift to the right in global politics is conceptualized in the academic literature and how class is theoretically positioned in this process. The aim is to subject the assumptions of different theoretical approaches, the conceptual sets they use, and the causal mechanisms on which they base the shift to the right to a meta-theoretical analysis, rather than addressing the existing academic output individually. The study's method is based on a comprehensive and critical literature review. The perspective of the study is based on the understanding that the shift to the right in global politics cannot be understood independently of the functioning of capitalism and its crisis dynamics. Capitalism is a structure that operates and is reproduced not only through economic processes but also through the legal regulations of the state, the functioning of ideological apparatuses, and political forms such as nationalism and anti-immigration sentiment. Therefore, according to the perspective of this study, the rise of right-wing movements should be approached as a historical and social phenomenon intertwined with the crises of the neoliberal era. The first part of the thesis places the shift to the right in the context of the structural transformations and crisis dynamics of neoliberal capitalism. Particularly in the context of the multiple crises that deepened after the 2008 global crisis, the weakening of the liberal-democratic order's capacity to generate consent, the erosion of the remnants of the welfare state, and the undermining of social solidarity mechanisms have opened up a new political space for right-wing movements. This section provides the necessary background to situate the current situation in its historical context and draws on Antonio Gramsci's concept of the 'interregnum period'. One of the main findings of the research is the need to read the shift to the right not merely as a passive manifestation of crises, but as a political response to the crisis of capitalism itself. The second section addresses the main conceptualizations in this complex literature—right-wing populism, neoliberal populism, authoritarian neoliberalism, neo-fascism, post-fascism, late fascism, etc. The differences between these approaches, which operate on different planes, point to theoretical divergences regarding the relationship between capitalism, the state, and ideology. Within this framework, class is sometimes treated as a secondary element, sometimes dissolves into cultural explanations and becomes invisible, and sometimes is positioned as an active political subject. The third section reevaluates this fragmented literature in the context of class struggle and argues that the relegation of class analysis to the background has led to the invisibility of the material foundations of the shift to the right. This section discusses the political consequences of class losing its central position in theory and demonstrates why a reading based on class struggle remains indispensable for understanding the causal mechanisms, functioning, and limits of the shift to the right. Ultimately, the thesis aims to demonstrate the theoretical and strategic necessity of a reading that centers class. The main finding of the research is that class has been reduced to different epistemological statuses, ceasing to be a consistent theoretical category in much of the literature. In some approaches, class is treated as a passive category subject to objective economic processes; in others, it is replaced by alternative categories such as identity, culture, and discourse. This differentiation raises the question of whether class is a simple methodological tool for dissecting the social or a category with its own explanatory capacity. The contribution of this study to the academic literature is that it reveals the consequences of the trivialization of the concept of class at both the theoretical and practical levels. The weakening of class analysis obscures the material conditions and class contradictions that form the social base of right-wing movements, thereby narrowing the ground for alternative political strategies that could be developed against these developments.