Class interest attaches to power techniques, not to their target persons
Evidence
In other words, the bourgeoisie doesn’t give a damn about the mad, but from the nineteenth century onward and subject to certain transformations, the procedures used to exclude the mad produced or generated a political profit, or even a certain economic utility. They consohdated the system and helped it to function as a whole. The bourgeoisie 1s not interested in the mad, but it 1s interested in power over the mad; the bourgeoisie is not interested in the sexuality of children, but it 15 interested in the system of power that controls the sexuality of children. — Michel Foucault, Society Must Be Defended, 51
Categorization
- XREF: Directly portable to Islamophobia: the state’s interest is in the surveillance/monitoring apparatus applied to Muslims, not in Muslims as such. — connects to: Industrial habits are imposed historically through brute coercion, not consent; A class becomes hegemonic when its elite transcends narrow corporate interests