Anonymous monopoly power produces mass powerlessness that breeds submission to authority

Evidence

Monopoly capitalist society was a society in which a small, economically dominant class becomes more and more distinct from the vast majority of the masses who are economically dependent on it and at its mercy'12and, it was implied, exerts its power more or less anonymously. A form of society such as this produces feelings of mass powerlessness which make the masses susceptible to persons or movements which know how to produce an impression of superior power, with its two faces: perilousness and protection’. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 172

Categorization

• XREF: Echoes the Frankfurt School’s fascism diagnosis linking monopolization to a fused industrial-party ruling bloc. — connects to: The power-monopolizing state reduces each member to a powerless cog — Hannah Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarianism, 401; Adult social helplessness, not child biological helplessness, drives the demand for authority — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 609
• DEEPTHINKING: Compresses the entire mass-psychology argument for fascism into one mechanism: perilousness and protection as the two faces of the same projected power.

Broader Connections

• The power-monopolizing state reduces each member to a powerless cog #corroborates (0.95) — Hannah Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarianism, 401
• Adult social helplessness, not child biological helplessness, drives the demand for authority #expands (0.85) — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 609