Modern welfare ideology replaces moral blame of the poor with suspicion

Evidence

Under liberalism the poor were thought to be lazy; now they are automatically objects of suspicion. Anybody who is not provided for outside should be in a concentration camp, or at any rate in the hell of the most degrading work and the slums. — Theodor W. Adorno, Max Horkheimer, Dialectic of Enlightenment, 115

Categorization

• QUESTION: Worth tracing how this suspicion mechanism anticipates later surveillance-state and welfare-reform discourse.
• XREF: connects to: Welfare can target the fact of poverty or its individual causes — Georg Simmel, on individuality and social forms_…, 434; Postwar class resentment infected economic theory and now drives welfare stigma — Clara E. Mattei, Escape from Capitalism: An Intervention, 227; Unsourced impressions replaced hard statistics and justified denying welfare resources — Ann Laura Stoler, Along the Archival Grain_ Epistemic…, 971 (+2 more)

Broader Connections

• Unsourced impressions replaced hard statistics and justified denying welfare resources #expands (0.82) — Ann Laura Stoler, Along the Archival Grain_ Epistemic…, 971
• Postwar class resentment infected economic theory and now drives welfare stigma #corroborates (0.80) — Clara E. Mattei, Escape from Capitalism, 227
• Welfare can target the fact of poverty or its individual causes #expands (0.78) — Georg Simmel, on individuality and social forms_…, 434