Pan-movement mobs differed fundamentally from the revolutionary masses that built constitutional government
Evidence
Except that the mob, organized in the pan-movements and inspired by race ideologies, was not at all the same people whose revolutionary actions had led to constitutional government and whose true representatives at that time could be found only in the workersā movements, but with its āenlarged tribal consciousnessā and its conspicuous lack of patriotism resembled much rather a ārace.ā ā Hannah Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarianism, 602
Categorization
Category: Definitional Content
- DEFINE: Introduces the key concept āenlarged tribal consciousnessā as distinct from patriotic citizenship ā a core piece of Arendtās vocabulary for the toolkit.
Related
- Pan-movements mobilized liberal tactics and popular-democracy rhetoric for race ends (similarity 0.81)
Broader Connections
- The mob shifts allegiance opportunistically between political camps
#complicates(0.75) ā Hannah Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarianism, 312 - A passive revolution occurs when a state leads instead of a social group
#complicates(0.73) ā Antonio Gramsci, Selections from the Prison Notebooks, 378 - Revolutionary cadres divorced from the masses cannot sustain a revolution
#complicates(0.72) ā Cedric J. Robinson, Black Marxism_ The Making of the Blackā¦, 1439