No attempt to abolish group hierarchy in surplus societies has succeeded

Evidence

Furthermore, every attempt to abolish arbitrary-set, group-based hierarchy within societies of economic surplus have, without exception, failed. These failures have ranged from attempts at massive, revolutionary transformation (e.g., the French, Russian, Mexican, Chinese, and American civil rights revolutions) to transformatory experiments within small and isolated utopian communities (e.g., New Harmony, Indiana; New Lanark, Scotland; the Oneida Community, New York). This apparently perfect correlation between the production of sustainable economic surplus and the emergence of arbitrary-set social hierarchy appears to imply that systems of arbitrary-set hierarchy will emerge whenever the proper economic conditions allow. — John T. Jost and Jim Sidanius, Political Psychology, 3171 (#corroborates, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: No permanent human social group has ever been fully egalitarian — W. David Marx, Status and Culture: How Our Desire for…, 56; No society with economic surplus has ever abolished arbitrary-set hierarchy — John T. Jost and Jim Sidanius, Political Psychology, 3171; Every surplus-producing society develops arbitrary-set hierarchy

Broader Connections

• No society with economic surplus has ever abolished arbitrary-set hierarchy #corroborates (1.00) — John T. Jost and Jim Sidanius, Political Psychology, 3171