Liberal rights promise happiness without power, and the cheated masses punish that promise.

Evidence

Liberalism had allowed the Jews property, but no power to command. The rights of man were designed to promise happiness even to those without power. Because the cheated masses feel that this promise in general remains a lie as long as there are still classes, their anger is aroused. They feel mocked. They must suppress the very possibility and idea of that happiness, the more relevant it becomes. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 363

Categorization

• DEEPTHINKING: Dense causal claim fusing class resentment, liberal rights, and the psychology of suppression.
• XREF: Connects to the Frankfurt School’s critique of the culture industry and the Dialectic of Enlightenment’s domination thesis. — connects to: Civilized order makes happiness a travesty whether it sanctions or forbids it.; An enforceable promise requires destroying one’s own power not to comply — Thomas C. Schelling, The Strategy of Conflict, 345; Any mass public under system collapse supports radical change promises without ideology — John T. Jost and Jim Sidanius, Political Psychology, 1975 (+1 more)
• yield-rescued: below the book’s yield-target cutoff, included anyway for connecting to: Civilized order makes happiness a travesty whether it sanctions or forbids it.; An enforceable promise requires destroying one’s own power not to comply — Thomas C. Schelling, The Strategy of Conflict, 345; Any mass public under system collapse supports radical change promises without ideology — John T. Jost and Jim Sidanius, Political Psychology, 1975 (+1 more)

Broader Connections

• Genuine hope rests on disrespect for entrenched, durable suffering, not on guarantees. #complicates (0.76)
• An enforceable promise requires destroying one’s own power not to comply #complicates (0.74) — Thomas C. Schelling, The Strategy of Conflict, 345