The power-monopolizing state reduces each member to a powerless cog

Evidence

For a Commonwealth based on the accumulated and monopolized power of all its individual members necessarily leaves each person powerless, deprived of his natural and human capacities. It leaves him degraded into a cog in the power-accumulating machine, free to console himself with sublime thoughts about the ultimate destiny of this machine, which itself is constructed in such a way that it can devour the globe simply by following its own inherent law. — Hannah Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarianism, 401

Categorization

• XREF: The ‘cog in the machine’ image connects forward to Arendt’s later account of totalitarian bureaucracy and to the rationalized, dehumanized administration that the Islamophobia canon critiques.
• DEFINE: Defines the mechanism by which the accumulation-state structurally desubjectifies its own members.