Stable domination requires legitimating ideology plus fragmentation of the ruled.

Evidence

We shall argue that a major instrument wielded by owners and managers in stabilizing a totalitarian system of economic power is the organization of the production process itself. The long run success of any totalitarian system requires a widely accepted ideology justifying the social order and a structure of social relationships which both validates this ideology through everyday experience, and fragments the ruled into mutually indifferent or antagonistic subgroups. — Samuel Bowles and Herbert Gintis, Schooling in Capitalist America, 588

Categorization

• XREF: Echoes divide-and-rule analyses across political theory and sectarian fragmentation debates. — connects to: Hierarchy transmits class-differentiated consciousness through families, constraining schools.; Total domination functionally requires permanent instability rather than material strength. — Hannah Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarianism, 1961; Hierarchical states need ideology to legitimize vertical power asymmetry. — Nicolas Baumard, A mutualistic approach to morality: The…, 448 (+12 more)

Broader Connections

• Hierarchical states need ideology to legitimize vertical power asymmetry. #corroborates (0.95) — Nicolas Baumard, A mutualistic approach to morality, 448
• Essentialist notions of group difference get appropriated by elites to sustain domination. #exemplifies (0.85) — David Theo Goldberg, John Solomos, A Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies, 291
• Total domination functionally requires permanent instability rather than material strength. #contradicts (0.80) — Hannah Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarianism, 1961
• Sustained domination produces habitual adjustment rather than rebellion among subjects. #expands (0.78)
• Systemic economic transformations require a legitimising ideology to offset their cruelties #corroborates (0.78) — Yanis Varoufakis, Technofeudalism, 219
• Long domination produces adjustment to rather than rebellion #expands (0.75) — Diego Gambetta, Trust - Making and Breaking Cooperative…, 2121
• Dominance is maintained through unstable equilibria that concede some subordinate interests #corroborates (0.72)
• Domination seeks control while leadership concords interests with other groups #contradicts (0.72)
• Totalitarian rule requires large populations to feed total domination #qualifies (0.72)
• Liberal democratic values are ambiguous and can legitimize domination #exemplifies (0.72) — Cristian Tileagă, The Nature of Prejudice, 114
• Fervently held supremacist demands remain logically consistent with the ruling ideology #complicates (0.70)
• A legitimizing myth must demonstrably mediate dominance desires and policy #qualifies (0.70)
• Societies built on mutual distrust can stabilize into enduring structures. #complicates (0.70) — Diego Gambetta, Trust - Making and Breaking Cooperative…, 92