Failed socialization forces revolutionary alternatives into the vacuum

Evidence

If this is not done, `Bolshevism’ will finish the task with other methods. It will stir up passions, artificially create an army of the unemployed … it expressly demands strikes and ever more strikes, and thinks it can force something new into existence by making everything older unsustainable. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 30

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Submissive conventional people experience social change as a shrinking island of stability — Bob Altemeyer, The Authoritarian Specter, 540; Massive socialization at home arrests consciousness and blocks autonomy’s hidden roots — Herbert Marcuse, One-Dimensional Man: Studies in the…, 851; Defeated revolutionary movements often self-destruct rather than self-correct (+4 more)

Broader Connections

• Resistance to social change comes from culturally invested groups facing obsolescence #complicates (0.78) — Antonio Gramsci, Selections from the Prison Notebooks, 1028
• Submissive conventional people experience social change as a shrinking island of stability #complicates (0.72) — Bob Altemeyer, The Authoritarian Specter, 540
• Massive socialization at home arrests consciousness and blocks autonomy’s hidden roots #expands (0.72) — Herbert Marcuse, One-Dimensional Man, 851
• Defeated revolutionary movements often self-destruct rather than self-correct #complicates (0.70)
• Technocratic consciousness suppresses the communicative interest at the core of socialization #expands (0.70) — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 2691