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 workers’ movements, but with its ā€œenlarged tribal consciousnessā€ and its conspicuous lack of patriotism resembled much rather a ā€œrace.ā€ — Hannah Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarianism, 602

Categorization

Category: Definitional Content

  • DEFINE: Introduces the key concept ā€˜enlarged tribal consciousness’ as distinct from patriotic citizenship — a core piece of Arendt’s vocabulary for the toolkit.

Broader Connections

  • The mob shifts allegiance opportunistically between political camps #complicates (0.75) — Hannah Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarianism, 312
  • A passive revolution occurs when a state leads instead of a social group #complicates (0.73) — Antonio Gramsci, Selections from the Prison Notebooks, 378
  • Revolutionary cadres divorced from the masses cannot sustain a revolution #complicates (0.72) — Cedric J. Robinson, Black Marxism_ The Making of the Black…, 1439