A sub-proletariat can become the conservative bastion of a monarch against bourgeois revolution
Evidence
I have highlighted the similarities between the early U.S. penitentiary—with its aspirations toward individual rehabilitation—and the repressive supermaxes of our era as a reminder of the mutability of history. What was once regarded as progressive and even revolutionary represents today the marriage of technological superiority and political backwardness. No one—not even the most ardent defenders of the supermax—would try to argue today that absolute segregation, including sensory deprivation, is restorative and healing. The prevailing justification for the supermax is that the horrors it creates are the perfect complement for the horrifying personalities deemed the worst of the worst by the prison system. In other words, there is no pretense that rights are respected, there is no concern for the individual, there is no sense that men and women incarcerated in super maxes deserve anything approaching respect and comfort. — Davis, Angela Y, Are Prisons Obsolete, 130 (
#complicates, via linked claim)
Categorization
- XREF: connects to: Feudal elites can keep leading a bourgeois state without fusing with the bourgeoisie; Failing to ally with radicalized petty bourgeois drives them toward the ruling class; Populism can be mobilized either against or in service of the power bloc (+2 more)
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Broader Connections
- Failing to ally with radicalized petty bourgeois drives them toward the ruling class
#expands(0.90) - Populism can be mobilized either against or in service of the power bloc
#corroborates(0.75) - What was progressive in one era can become politically backward in another
#complicates(0.72) — Davis, Angela Y, Are Prisons Obsolete, 130 - Egalitarian leveling of elites can serve as a mechanism of despotism.
#corroborates(0.72) — Michel Foucault, Society Must Be Defended, 161