Economic inequality is the universal form that local oppressions take.
Evidence
It is no exaggeration that, whatever we might say about the nature of its influence over our lives, the global economy is by far the most universal, powerful and interwoven system of power on the planet. People everywhere live and die by their pocketbooks. Local modes of oppression and exploitation, from racism to sexism to ablism to homophobia, tend to express themselves most universally in the form of economic privilege or privation and the division of labour. — Max Haiven, Cultures of Financialization, 337
Categorization
- XREF: Connects to deWaard’s cultural argument about finance colonizing everyday life, and echoes Marxist base-superstructure debates the reader is tracking. — connects to: Disadvantaged people rationalize their own state of inequality to cope.; All social inequality ultimately reduces to inequality of income — Bertrand Russell, History of Western Philosophy, 817; Low-income workers rationalize their own economic disadvantage to cope with inequality. — John T. Jost and Jim Sidanius, Political Psychology, 128 (+11 more)
Broader Connections
- All social inequality ultimately reduces to inequality of income
#expands(0.80) — Bertrand Russell, History of Western Philosophy, 817 - Systems of oppression constitute each other rather than merely crossing paths
#corroborates(0.80) — Sherene Razack, Casting Out, 149 - Racism converts perceived permanent difference into inequality
#exemplifies(0.80) - Racial inferiority ideology emerges from oppression, not merely from perceived difference
#exemplifies(0.80) - Individuality and universal equality historically arise as twin reactions to inequality
#expands(0.78) — Georg Simmel, on individuality and social forms_…, 687 - Disadvantaged people rationalize their own state of inequality to cope.
#complicates(0.75) - Low-income workers rationalize their own economic disadvantage to cope with inequality.
#exemplifies(0.75) — John T. Jost and Jim Sidanius, Political Psychology, 128 - Inequality is felt as injustice only when groups share a superordinate identity
#qualifies(0.75) - Victims of inequality can unknowingly adopt beliefs that perpetuate their own disadvantage
#exemplifies(0.75) - Privileged groups rationalize oppression by claiming the oppressed enjoy advantages
#complicates(0.73) — Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex, 1972 - Resistance to oppression also creates social categories of difference
#qualifies(0.72) - Oppression functions by domesticating and submerging consciousness.
#complicates(0.72) — Paulo Freire, Pedagogy of the Oppressed, 121 - Income inequality shapes how societies stereotype groups into ambivalent versus all-good-slash-all-bad categories.
#expands(0.72) — Susan T. Fiske, Stereotype Content, 30 - American racial injustice in justice systems is a universal dominance phenomenon
#exemplifies(0.72)