Compromise Formation

There are plenty of rational and material reasons not to rebel against an exploitative system that nevertheless feeds and clothes you. But why, when discontent erupts, does revolt largely spill into the void?

It now seems that even semi-sovereignty is slipping away, and that the people, or the ordinary citizenry, are becoming effectively non-sovereign.

Peter Mair, Ruling the Void

For many years, the goal of ideology critique and analytical social psychology seemed to be to understand why the poor and working classes don’t rise up to change their situation. It …