Benjamin recoded the urban crowd as raw material for fascist mass discipline.

Evidence

The figure of shock' was now seen all the more in inner connection with Baudelaire's contact with the metropolitan masses’, which were now only characterized as reflexive, as the amorphous material for an approaching fascist mass-disciplinary process. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 229

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to the Frankfurt School’s mass-culture and mass-psychology analyses of fascism. — connects to: Benjamin saw distracted mass reception as politically radicalizing — Alex Callinicos, Against Postmodernism: A Marxist…, 120
• yield-rescued: below the book’s yield-target cutoff, included anyway for connecting to: Benjamin saw distracted mass reception as politically radicalizing — Alex Callinicos, Against Postmodernism: A Marxist…, 120