Elites frame working-class political demands as usurpations of rational debate

Evidence

The non-bourgeois strata that penetrated the public sphere and presented their collective interests as demands before the state were made to appear as usurpers preventing the continuation of public debate aimed at discerning what was rational and true. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 2370

Categorization

• SHARE: Worth sending to anyone working on deliberative democracy or the depoliticization of working-class demands.
• XREF: connects to: Individualism becomes a defense of the status quo by delegitimizing group-based demands

Broader Connections

• Individualism becomes a defense of the status quo by delegitimizing group-based demands #expands (0.82)