Rigid class systems produced more dangerous breakdowns when challenged

Evidence

In other countries, where the nation-state and the class basis of its parties were not touched by migrations and heterogeneity of population, inflation and unemployment caused a similar breakdown; and it is obvious that the more rigid the country’s class system, the more class-conscious its people had been, the more dramatic and dangerous was this breakdown. — Hannah Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarianism, 654

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Conspiracy surges track rigid class structure and felt disenfranchisement — Anna Merlan, Republic of Lies, 33