Popular culture belongs to an alliance of oppressed classes

Evidence

It must therefore be emphasized that the common submission to a ruling power by no means always leads to unification but, if the submission occurs under certain conditions, to the very opposite of it. For instance, English legislation directed a number of measures and exclusions concerning military service, the right to vote, ownership, and government positions, against non-Conformists, that is, against Presbyterians, Catholics, and Jews alike. The member of the state church thus used his prerogative to give equal expression to his hatred of all these groups. But this did not fuse the oppressed into a community of any sort; on the contrary, the hatred of the Conformist was even surpassed by the Presbyterian’s hatred of the Catholic, and of the Catholic’s of the Presbyterian. — Georg Simmel, on individuality and social forms_…, 335 (#complicates, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Eighteenth-century popular culture operated outside the law yet inside networks of social force; Popular culture refers not to one class but an alliance of subordinated classes; Common oppression does not necessarily unify the oppressed — Georg Simmel, on individuality and social forms_…, 335 (+2 more)

Related

• Common oppression does not necessarily unify the oppressed (similarity 0.83)
• Eighteenth-century popular culture operated outside the law yet inside networks of social force (similarity 0.81)

Broader Connections

• Popular culture refers not to one class but an alliance of subordinated classes #corroborates (0.90)
• Common oppression does not necessarily unify the oppressed #complicates (0.85) — Georg Simmel, on individuality and social forms_…, 335