Elite police rule requires admitting neutral masses to bolster itself
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- Dominant powers benefit from engineering their subjects’ inability to trust (similarity 0.83)
- An ultimate power to decide generates its own norms and cannot be trusted (similarity 0.82)
- Hegemony must be won before power is seized, not merely imposed by force after (similarity 0.82)
- The mafia first appears in official records as an established force (similarity 0.81)
- Entry into the mafia requires inherited skills or psychopathy plus no better options (similarity 0.81)
- Wilful effort is required to produce the appearance of subjectless violence. (similarity 0.81)
- A unified hierarchical mafia reduces internal conflict and public violence. (similarity 0.81)
- Essentialist identity politics can be a necessary defense where no alternative exists. (similarity 0.81)
- State weakness cannot explain the mafia’s emergence (similarity 0.81)
- Nonviolent mass action handed liberation to the petit bourgeoisie (similarity 0.80)
- Parasitic cheating thrives where trust is generalized from trustworthy settings (similarity 0.80)
- Hegemony means tendential balance, not absolute class victory (similarity 0.80)
- Power generates the will of the power-holder rather than serving it (similarity 0.79)
- Institutions used as instruments can be destroyed by their own alignment with compromised allies. (similarity 0.79)
- Hegemony builds collective will by articulating differences, not erasing them (similarity 0.79)