Oppressive cultures face destruction by their own suppressed groups

Evidence

In “The Future of an Illusion” Freud notes that a culture in which the wellbeing of one group in the society is predicated on the subjugation or “suppression” of another will prompt intense hostility on the part of the suppressed. The deeper the hostility, the more likely the disaffected will act to destroy the culture, and in the extreme will reject the very premises on which the culture founds itself. Such an oppressive culture, Freud concludes, neither is likely nor justly “deserves” to perpetuate itself (as oppressing culture, as a state of oppression). — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race, 570

Categorization

• XREF: This connects to the writing on ritual sacrifice and the stability of stratified societies — an opposed but complementary claim about what maintains vs. destroys oppressive orders. — connects to: Sacralized violence against outsiders provokes reciprocal vengeful cycles that degrade culture — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race: Reflections on…, 1834; Treating the dominated as homogeneous fuels forced tribal congregation and cultural destruction — Val Plumwood, Feminism and the Mastery of Nature, 219