Comunitarian resistance to change masks defense of present hierarchy

Evidence

Economic, political, and social progress bring new groups and classes into the center of society, making changes in culture and values much easier. A seeming concern of Khaldun and other communitarians is to block such changes. They argue de facto for a society in which current dispensations as of some moment are turned into fairly rigidly determined positional goods with strong constraints on change. — Russell Hardin, Trust and Trustworthiness, 869

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Bourgeois tolerance functions as a mask preserving the status quo — Martin Jay, The Dialectical Imagination: A History…, 342; Preserving the status quo now unites former class antagonists in advanced societies — Herbert Marcuse, One-Dimensional Man: Studies in the…, 91; the MOC “The Enemy-Making Machine: How Ourselves, the True, and Every Other Are Built from War”