Every privilege presupposes someone else being sacrificed and exploited.

Evidence

But in fact the thing is natural and obvious, since a working-class protectionism—reformism, cooperatives, public works is only possible if partial; in other words, every privilege presupposes somebody being sacrificed and exploited. — Antonio Gramsci, Selections from the Prison Notebooks, 514

Categorization

• XREF: Core mechanism linking to later Islamophobia readings: partial incorporation of one dominated group operates through systematic sacrifice of another — the logic of racialized scapegoating.
• DEFINE: Gramsci’s ‘partial protectionism’ is the structural insight that inclusion of one sector is purchased by exclusion of another.