Enforced renunciation by workers reproduces the oppressor’s own subjugation

Evidence

The laborers must be fresh and concentrate as they look ahead, and must ignore whatever lies to one side. They must doggedly sublimate in additional effort the drive that impels to diversion. And so they become practical. … The other possibility Odysseus, the seigneur who allows the others to labor for themselves, reserves to himself. … They reproduce the oppressor’s life together with their own, and the oppressor is no longer able to escape his social role. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 359

Categorization

• DEEPTHINKING: The claim that master and servant are bound by the same compulsion to social domination of nature is the dialectic’s central, hard-to-summarize move.
• XREF: connects to: A persecuted people can become oppressors in founding their own state — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race: Reflections on…, 569; Subordinates actively cooperate in their own oppression; Revolutionaries can unconsciously retain the oppressor within themselves. — Paulo Freire, Pedagogy of the Oppressed, 627 (+8 more)
• yield-rescued: below the book’s yield-target cutoff, included anyway for connecting to: A persecuted people can become oppressors in founding their own state — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race: Reflections on…, 569; Subordinates actively cooperate in their own oppression; Revolutionaries can unconsciously retain the oppressor within themselves. — Paulo Freire, Pedagogy of the Oppressed, 627 (+8 more)

Broader Connections

• Revolutionaries can unconsciously retain the oppressor within themselves. #corroborates (0.94) — Paulo Freire, Pedagogy of the Oppressed, 627
• Revolutionaries who internalized the oppressor can re-create oppression after taking power. #corroborates (0.93) — Paulo Freire, Pedagogy of the Oppressed, 506