Westerners cannot be re-enrolled in mass parties because they rejected political commitment itself.

Evidence

As the sociologist Ingolfur Bluhdorn notes, Westerners emancipated themselves twice: first from traditional authorities, then from the kind of political commitment required to accomplish that emancipation. Who could command them to reverse course? To extend Baudrillard’s simile, recreating the mass party of the industrial age might be likened to the genomic reconstruction of a mammoth from DNA samples extracted out of the Siberian permafrost—a scientifically interesting but practically pointless exercise. — Anton Jäger, Hyperpolitics, 241

Categorization

• QUESTION: Bluhdorn’s ‘double emancipation’ is a strong framework fragment — worth chasing the original source for a usable citation.
• CANDY: The mammoth-reconstruction simile is a compact, tweetable image for why nostalgic party-revival is pointless.
• XREF: connects to: Totalitarian movements deliberately refuse fixed definitions and value-commitments — Hannah Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarianism, 2651; Emancipating from authority also destroyed the commitment needed for politics. — Anton Jäger, Hyperpolitics: Extreme Politicization…, 241
• yield-rescued: below the book’s yield-target cutoff, included anyway for connecting to: Totalitarian movements deliberately refuse fixed definitions and value-commitments — Hannah Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarianism, 2651; Emancipating from authority also destroyed the commitment needed for politics. — Anton Jäger, Hyperpolitics: Extreme Politicization…, 241

Broader Connections

• Totalitarian movements deliberately refuse fixed definitions and value-commitments #complicates (0.72) — Hannah Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarianism, 2651