Class confidence is bodily inheritance, not current power holding

Evidence

“Class disadvantage is a form of injury inflicted on the person at birth,” David Smail explains, “The confident slouch of the hands-in-pocket, old Etonian cabinet minister speaks not so much as a current possession of power (on some measures the union boss might possess as much) as of a confidence which was sucked in with his mother’s milk.” (Even if the milk he fed on was unlikely to have come from his mother). The welfare state was supposed to be a structure which removed some of this doubt, while the imposition of precarity is a political project designed to remove the confidence that the working class had attained after years of struggle. — Mark Fisher (edited by Darren Ambrose), K-Punk, 1872

Categorization

• QUESTION: The claim that precarity is a deliberate political project to strip working-class confidence invites verification against economic history.
• XREF: Connects to Bourdieu on bodily hexis and habitus as internalized class, and to the reader’s interest in how institutions (welfare state) shaped confidence. — connects to: Class confidence is an injury-trait acquired at birth, not current power — Mark Fisher (edited by Darren Ambrose), K-Punk: The Collected and Unpublished…, 1872; Class-society power structures keep subjects in an infantile dependence stance toward rulers; Economic class boundaries do not align with psychological character structures — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 565 (+2 more)

Broader Connections

• Class confidence is an injury-trait acquired at birth, not current power #expands (0.92) — Mark Fisher (edited by Darren Ambrose), K-Punk, 1872
• Values are inherited from the social world, not invented from nothing #expands (0.78) — Christine Daigle, Jacob Golomb (eds.), Beauvoir and Sartre, 213
• Class-society power structures keep subjects in an infantile dependence stance toward rulers #expands (0.75)
• Authoritarian traits may cohere as class norms rather than psychic dynamics #complicates (0.74)
• Economic class boundaries do not align with psychological character structures #complicates (0.71) — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 565