Subordinate classes’ belief in their incapacity helps sustain their subordination.

Evidence

This returns us to the question of reflexive impotence. Class power has always depended on a kind of reflexive impotence, with the subordinate class’ beliefs about its own incapacity for action reinforcing that very condition. It would, of course, be grotesque to blame the subordinate class for their subordination; but to ignore the role that their complicity with the existing order plays in a self-fulfilling circuit would, ironically, be to deny their power. — Mark Fisher (edited by Darren Ambrose), K-Punk, 498

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Subordinates widely share belief in the legitimacy of their own subordinate status. — John T. Jost and Jim Sidanius, Political Psychology, 3252; Benevolent beliefs can recruit subordinates into supporting their own oppression. — John F. Dovidio, Peter Glick, Laurie A. Rudman, On the Nature of Prejudice: Fifty Years…, 773; Subordinate groups share the dominant status ranking of their own subordination — John T. Jost and Jim Sidanius, Political Psychology: Key Readings, 3252 (+8 more)

Broader Connections

• Disadvantaged groups routinely adopt beliefs that perpetuate their own subordination #corroborates (0.95) — John T. Jost and Jim Sidanius, Political Psychology, 2876
• Ideological hegemony operates when subordinates internalize the dominant group’s justifications of inequality #corroborates (0.93)
• Subordinates widely share belief in the legitimacy of their own subordinate status. #corroborates (0.92) — John T. Jost and Jim Sidanius, Political Psychology, 3252
• Subordinate groups share the dominant status ranking of their own subordination #corroborates (0.88) — John T. Jost and Jim Sidanius, Political Psychology, 3252
• Benevolent beliefs can recruit subordinates into supporting their own oppression. #corroborates (0.85) — John F. Dovidio, Peter Glick, Laurie A. Rudman, On the Nature of Prejudice, 773
• Subordinate groups strategically deploy difference to resist dominant control and revalue themselves #complicates (0.80) — David Theo Goldberg, John Solomos, A Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies, 115
• Benevolent prejudice explains why subordinates collaborate in their own subordination. #corroborates (0.80) — , Rudman, Laurie A - On the Nature of…, 772
• Social hierarchy is maintained by dominants and subordinates cooperatively #expands (0.78) — John T. Jost and Jim Sidanius, Political Psychology, 3212
• People recognize their subordination even under hegemonic rule #contradicts (0.75) — Stuart Hall, Essential Essays, Volume 2, 259
• Subordinate classes gain self-awareness only by negation of the enemy #corroborates (0.75) — Antonio Gramsci, Selections from the Prison Notebooks, 1012