Conservatism organizes around capital’s default associational forms
Evidence
Why, then, has the right fared better than the left in Putnam’s postpolitical ice age? The answer may be more straightforward than it appears. Conservatism has always grown organically out of capitalist society, soldered by the default forms of association that capital generates. As Engels pointed out in an 1881 report to British trade unionists, the ruling class here enjoys a structural advantage: Capitalists are always organized. — Anton Jäger, Hyperpolitics, 161
Categorization
- QUESTION: The paragraph is cut off at a colon — Engels’ structural argument that follows is the actual load-bearing causal claim, but it begins on the next page and isn’t fully retrievable here.