Analyzing one ruled class reveals how fascism integrates all ruled classes.

Evidence

Contrasted with them were the `ruled classes’, whose situation Neumann examined using the working class as an example. The working class had largely been robbed of its spontaneity by its bureaucratic organizations and by a standardized mass culture dictated by the private monopolies, and it was easy prey for the Nazis. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 310

Categorization

• XREF: Echoes the Institute’s method of reading total social structure through one exemplary group, as in the workers study and the group experiment. — connects to: Bourgeois class behavior explains the subjective key to fascism — Dirk Braunstein, Adorno’s Critique of Political Economy, 1421; Gramsci analyzed fascism through its social base rather than abstract class form — Antonio Gramsci, Selections from the Prison Notebooks, 186; Fascism can integrate the ruled classes into its order without eliminating capitalism. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 310 (+4 more)
• yield-rescued: below the book’s yield-target cutoff, included anyway for connecting to: Bourgeois class behavior explains the subjective key to fascism — Dirk Braunstein, Adorno’s Critique of Political Economy, 1421; Gramsci analyzed fascism through its social base rather than abstract class form — Antonio Gramsci, Selections from the Prison Notebooks, 186; Fascism can integrate the ruled classes into its order without eliminating capitalism. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 310 (+4 more)

Broader Connections

• Working-class authoritarianism conflicts with fascism’s lower-middle-class narrative #complicates (0.73) — John T. Jost and Jim Sidanius, Political Psychology, 640