Violent hatred need not spring from the victim’s power and abuse

Evidence

The general decline of Western and Central European Jewry, however, constitutes merely the atmosphere in which the subsequent events took place. The decline itself explains them as little as the mere loss of power by the aristocracy would explain the French Revolution. To be aware of such general rules is important only in order to refute those recommendations of common sense which lead us to believe that violent hatred or sudden rebellion spring necessarily from great power and great abuses, and that consequently organized hatred of the Jews cannot but be a reaction to their importance and power. — Hannah Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarianism, 66

Categorization

• QUESTION: If decline, not power, is the precondition, what mechanism converts group decline into organized hatred — a thread worth chasing into later chapters.
• XREF: connects to: The will to dominate presupposes sadism, not vice versa; State-sponsored violence channels a resentful hatred of living bodies; Unremedied childhood abuse produces a powerlessness that radical anger then compensates — Ryan Andrew Brown, Todd C. Helmus, Rajeev Ramchand, Alina I. Palimaru, Sarah Weilant, Ashley L. Rhoades, and Liisa Hiatt (RAND Corporation), Violent Extremism in America:…, 289 (+4 more)