Outsider groups serve as involuntary conduits for fascism’s own taboo impulses

Evidence

The economic position of the Jews, the last defrauded frauds of liberalistic ideology, affords them no secure protection. Since they are so eminently fitted to generate these mental induction currents, they serve such functions involuntarily. They share the fate of the rebellious nature as which Fascism uses them: they are employed blindly yet perspicaciously. — Theodor W. Adorno, Max Horkheimer, Dialectic of Enlightenment, 145

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to the reader’s theme in Burns’s work on the culture industry and manufactured consent — fascism industrializes scapegoating just as mass culture industrializes pacification. — connects to: Fascist personalities substitute a group ego for their own super-ego; Fascism’s purity mindset demands melting well-earned identity defenses into universalist solidarity — Naomi Klein, Doppelganger: A Trip into the Mirror…, 1083; Fascist followers’ masochism is fused with sadistic impulses — Theodor W. Adorno, The Culture Industry: Selected Essays…, 328 (+4 more)

Broader Connections

• Fascist personalities substitute a group ego for their own super-ego #expands (0.85)
• Fascist leaders keep libidinal energy unconscious so it can be diverted into obedience #expands (0.80) — Theodor W. Adorno, The Culture Industry, 184
• Fascism’s purity mindset demands melting well-earned identity defenses into universalist solidarity #complicates (0.75) — Naomi Klein, Doppelganger, 1083
• Fascist followers’ masochism is fused with sadistic impulses #complicates (0.75) — Theodor W. Adorno, The Culture Industry, 328