Alien intrusion offers rootless middling groups a way to confront class discord.

Evidence

In a conservative era that was unable to ignore yet unwilling to face up to its inner schisms, the rootless “in-betweeners”’ had few resources to resist the loss of homogeneity. But they knew, at least, that they belonged to the nation and it to them. ‘They could understand the discord in their Eden, and combat it, as an alien intrusion. — John Higham, Strangers in the Land, 311

Categorization

• QUESTION: Does this in-between vulnerability hold in current analogues, or has the ‘middle’ been replaced by other carriers of manufactured enemies?
• XREF: Echoes the reader’s theoretical question on whether solidarity is manufactured against a constructed external enemy rather than primordial identity. — connects to: Serialized classes coalesce into groups only through a common external enemy. — Fredric Jameson, Marxism and Form, 559

Broader Connections

• Serialized classes coalesce into groups only through a common external enemy. #expands (0.78) — Fredric Jameson, Marxism and Form, 559