Comment DPU's (Score 1) 385
Near the beginning of World War II, psychologist Erich Fromm stated in Escape from Freedom that the nature of a dictatorial state was to amass the greatest number of depotentiated social units.
This does not prove the categories are a priori. There were only 5 subjects who all had similar history (upbringing in the modern western world). That is not empirical evidence, at best it is a suggestion.
You've added a sociological dimension, so you must be speaking of the a posteriori.
No amount of careful planning will ever replace dumb luck.