Power-accumulating societies can only unify the mob by transforming nations into races

Evidence

If it should prove to be true that we are imprisoned in Hobbes’s endless process of power accumulation, then the organization of the mob will inevitably take the form of transformation of nations into races, for there is, under the conditions of an accumulating society, no other unifying bond available between individuals who in the very process of power accumulation and expansion are losing all natural connections with their fellow-men. — Hannah Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarianism, 428

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to how modern bureaucratic rationality enables imagined communities — race becomes the only ‘unifying bond’ once natural human connection is lost to accumulation. — connects to: Ideas matter only as they strengthen the race and subjugate others