Comintern practice collapsed left and right opposition into one category

Evidence

Halfbreeds differ significantly from apparently similar cases of the ‘boundary-blurring’. If social outcasts, the declassé individuals, are, so to speak, decategorized, while immigrants tend to be a-categorized (they exist, as it were, outside the dominant classification and hence on the whole do not sap its authority), half-breeds are overcategorized; they force the overlap of semantic fields which need to be carefully fenced and kept separate if the dominant classification is to retain its authority — Zygmunt Bauman, Modernity and the Holocaust, 776 (#expands, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Famished petty strata always defect to the right at decisive moments; Impartiality’s false symmetry neutralizes opposition and suppresses class content; Categorization systems fail and threaten authority when semantic boundaries overlap. — Zygmunt Bauman, Modernity and the Holocaust, 776

Related

• Categorization systems fail and threaten authority when semantic boundaries overlap. (similarity 0.80)

Broader Connections

• Famished petty strata always defect to the right at decisive moments #expands (0.78)
• Categorization systems fail and threaten authority when semantic boundaries overlap. #expands (0.75) — Zygmunt Bauman, Modernity and the Holocaust, 776
• Impartiality’s false symmetry neutralizes opposition and suppresses class content #complicates (0.72)