The administrative state produces unpolitical citizens within a political society

Evidence

But this did not necessarily imply that the influence of capital and labour would result in the communal public regulation of production, or in communal regulation of the distribution and use of products. Instead, an administrative state was developing, in which associations and groups beyond public control were able to have immediate influence on parliament as the organ representing the people. The fatal result wasas Habermas put it, with a piquancy derived from Marxthe production of `unpolitical citizens within what is actually a political society’. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 2337

Categorization

• XREF: Resonates with Adorno’s claim that indifference to victimization enables fascism (ch63) and critical empiricism’s fear of system critique (ch74). — connects to: State power reproduces a common, diffused subjectivity across every citizen — Wael Hallaq, Restating Orientalism: A Critique of…, 201; Political apathy can be sanctioned as the system’s healthy basis — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 2341; Administrative planning inadvertently politicizes private life and weakens tradition — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 2712 (+6 more)

Broader Connections

• State power reproduces a common, diffused subjectivity across every citizen #contradicts (0.85) — Wael Hallaq, Restating Orientalism, 201