Socialist states systematically destroyed subordinate societal subunits

Evidence

Something similar is a very marked characteristic of socialist societies as functioning at present. There is the systematic destruction of subordinate units, of subunits within the society, other than those which are actually part of the central machine. — Diego Gambetta, Trust - Making and Breaking Cooperative…, 2065

Categorization

• XREF: Direct parallel: socialist states’ destruction of subunits echoes the Islamic pattern of suppressing trust-engendering groups the author just described, reinforcing the reading’s theme that trusted groups threaten central power.