The state’s ethical function raises masses to a level serving ruling-class interests
Evidence
Stakes and resources are manipulated by those who truly control the situation: who are able to make some choices too costly to be frequently selected by those whom they rule, while securing frequent and massive selection of choices which bring closer their aims and reinforce their control. This capacity does not change, whether the aims of the rulers are beneficial or detrimental to the interests of the ruled. Under sharply asymmetrical power conditions, rationality of the ruled is, to say the least, a mixed blessing. It may work to their gain. But it may as well destroy them. — Zygmunt Bauman, Modernity and the Holocaust, 424 (
#qualifies, via linked claim)
Categorization
- XREF: connects to: The state converts class interests into the general interest, giving them universal form; Under asymmetric power, the rationality of the ruled serves the rulers’ aims. — Zygmunt Bauman, Modernity and the Holocaust, 424
Related
- Under asymmetric power, the rationality of the ruled serves the rulers’ aims. (similarity 0.83)
- The state converts class interests into the general interest, giving them universal form (similarity 0.79)
Broader Connections
- The state converts class interests into the general interest, giving them universal form
#expands(0.90) - Under asymmetric power, the rationality of the ruled serves the rulers’ aims.
#qualifies(0.75) — Zygmunt Bauman, Modernity and the Holocaust, 424