Capitalism becomes a whole way of life only through the state’s ethical civilizing work.

Evidence

But why is capitalist society a society at all? This question is left unanswered if we simply characterise the capitalist social order in terms of its main institutional alignments. For, given its expansionist characteristics, capitalistic economic life is only in a few respects confined to the boundaries of specific social systems. From its early origins capitalism is international in scope. A capitalist society is a “society” only because it is a nation-state. The characteristics of the nation-state in some substantial part must be explained and analysed separately from discussion of the nature of either capitalism or industrialism. The administrative system of the capitalist state, and of modern states in general, has to be interpreted in terms of the coordinated control over delimited territorial arenas which it achieves. — Anthony Giddens, The Consequences of Modernity, 153 (#corroborates, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Capitalism reproduces itself by drawing civil and cultural life into conformity with its needs; A capitalist society is a society only because it is a nation-state — Anthony Giddens, The Consequences of Modernity, 153

Related

• A capitalist society is a society only because it is a nation-state (similarity 0.87)
• Gramsci’s state concept explains how capitalism became a whole way of social life (similarity 0.80)
• Much societal power remains beyond the political system’s reach (similarity 0.79)
• Western consumer capitalism shapes an auxiliary modernizing intelligentsia in the Orient. (similarity 0.79)

Broader Connections

• Capitalism reproduces itself by drawing civil and cultural life into conformity with its needs #expands (0.80)
• A capitalist society is a society only because it is a nation-state #corroborates (0.80) — Anthony Giddens, The Consequences of Modernity, 153