Susceptibility to propaganda for terror is itself a product of prior oppression

Evidence

I don’t have to tell you that I don’t believe in psychology as a means to solve a problem of such seriousness. I did not change a bit my scepticism towards that discipline. Also, the term psychology as I use it in the project stands for anthropology and anthropology for the theory of man as he has developed under the conditions of antagonistic society. It is my intention to study the presence of the scheme of domination in the so-called psychological life, the instincts as well as the thoughts of men. The tendencies in people which make them susceptible to propaganda for terror, are themselves the result of terror, physical and spiritual, actual and potential oppression. … If we could succeed in describing the patterns, according to which domination operates even in the remotest domains of the mind, we would have done a worthwhile job. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 381

Categorization

• DEFINE: Horkheimer redefines ‘psychology’ in the project as a theory of man under antagonistic society — domination traced into instincts and thoughts.
• DEEPTHINKING: The core thesis that domination reproduces itself in the mind’s remotest domains dissolves the usual boundary between political coercion and inner life.
• XREF: Directly builds on the recorded claim that susceptibility to propaganda for terror is itself a product of prior oppression. — connects to: Alienated people may deny their own oppressive reality as self-defense — Paulo Freire, Pedagogy of the Oppressed, 499; People rationalize oppressive arrangements that harm them rather than protect their own interests — John T. Jost and Jim Sidanius, Political Psychology, 2911
• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 381

Broader Connections

• Alienated people may deny their own oppressive reality as self-defense #corroborates (0.78) — Paulo Freire, Pedagogy of the Oppressed, 499
• People rationalize oppressive arrangements that harm them rather than protect their own interests #corroborates (0.75) — John T. Jost and Jim Sidanius, Political Psychology, 2911