Fascist agitators fetishize organization to simulate coherence over unorganized crowds
Evidence
The loosely knit character of such motley crowds makes it imperative that discipline and coherence be stressed at the expense of the centrifugal uncanalized urge to love. Part of the agitatorâs task consists in making the crowd believe that it is organized like the Army or the Church. Hence the tendency towards overorganization. A fetish is made of organization as such; it becomes an end instead of a means and this tendency prevails throughout the agitatorâs speeches. â Theodor W. Adorno, The Culture Industry, 309
Categorization
Category: Causal Relationships
- XREF: The âmeans-ends inversionâ fetishization echoes the culture industryâs treatment of standardization as an end; also resonates with Howieâs essay-work building on administered life.