The European masses existed only through the nobilities’ totalizing myth

Evidence

The masses did not exist as such. As earlier, Greek and Roman thinkers had created the totalizing construct of the barbarians, the feudal nobilities of western Europe had inspired and authored a similar myth. — Cedric J. Robinson, Black Marxism_ The Making of the Black…, 186

Categorization

Category: Definitional Content

• DEFINE: Defines ‘the masses’ as a mythic construct parall to the barbarian construct, not an empirical grouping.

Related

• European nobilities invented a myth of the masses akin to the barbarian construct (similarity 0.96)
• Europe’s foundations lie with peoples the Romans excluded as barbarians (similarity 0.81)
• European egalitarianism myths were maintained by hierarchies that divided peoples for domination (similarity 0.80)
• The Black masses, not the intelligentsia, were the true source of the tradition. (similarity 0.79)