Ruling-class unity rhetoric signals its vulnerability to pressure

Evidence

Whenever the ruling class tells us that “we’re all on the same side”, it is a sure sign that we can hurt them. Similarly, the current media phobia about unions is an indication of the power that they have at this time. History is starting again, which means that nothing is fixed and there are no guarantees. Right-wing victory is only inevitable if we think that it is. — Mark Fisher (edited by Darren Ambrose), K-Punk, 1476

Categorization

• APHORISMS: The final lines read as genuine activist wisdom: when power appeals for solidarity, it is exposing its own weakness — worth returning to as a heuristic.
• XREF: connects to: Ruling-class calls for unity signal our capacity to hurt them; Ideological unity forms through connotative condensation and an axial interpellation; Political unity is strengthened rather than weakened by divergent attentions — Yves Citton, The Ecology of Attention, 347 (+1 more)

Broader Connections

• Ruling-class calls for unity signal our capacity to hurt them #corroborates (0.98)
• Ideological unity forms through connotative condensation and an axial interpellation #expands (0.75)
• Vague ideological slogans can mask rather than resolve real political contradictions #qualifies (0.75) — Antonio Gramsci, Selections from the Prison Notebooks, 2766
• Political unity is strengthened rather than weakened by divergent attentions #contradicts (0.72) — Yves Citton, The Ecology of Attention, 347