Experience that rebels associate inverts into fear that all associations rebel

Evidence

On the one hand, there is the experience that revolutionary tendencies, or tendencies that are at all directed toward changing what is, must adopt the form of unifying as many interested parties as possible. But this experience changes into the logically false but psychologically well understandable inverse notion according to which all associations have tendencies directed against the existing powers. — Georg Simmel, The Sociology of Georg Simmel, 4606

Categorization

• XREF: Simmel’s inversion — grouped opponents treated as inherently dangerous — parallels the moral-panic logic seen in Shapiro’s guardian/control analyses.