Digital party organization cannot replace vanished civil-society substructures

Evidence

Building a digital party through Momentum, or simulating that older civil society, proved no real substitute for a vanished substructure. Instead, the members either left en masse or were actively pushed out, returning Labour to its old cartel form. — Arthur Borriello and Anton Jäger, The Populist Moment, 300

Categorization

• XREF: Pays off the book’s earlier ‘digital light-touch organization’ and ‘disintermediation atomized society’ theses with a concrete failure case. — connects to: Digital light-touch organization suits today’s disorganized democracy — Arthur Borriello and Anton Jäger, The Populist Moment: The Left After the…, 83; LFI’s light structure aided mobilization but prevented long-run entrenchment — Arthur Borriello and Anton Jäger, The Populist Moment: The Left After the…, 314; Digital communities failed to replace lost physical association — Anton Jäger, Hyperpolitics: Extreme Politicization…, 97 (+3 more)

Broader Connections

• Online solidarity cannot replace workplace and community ties. #corroborates (0.95)
• Digital communities failed to replace lost physical association #corroborates (0.92) — Anton Jäger, Hyperpolitics, 97
• Digital protest crowds behave like swarms that cannot be organized durably #corroborates (0.80) — Arthur Borriello and Anton Jäger, The Populist Moment, 343
• Informal communication cannot substitute for formal technical power #corroborates (0.75) — Niklas Luhmann, Trust and Power, 808