Intense monopolization fuses industrialists and party terrorists into one ruling bloc
Evidence
The practitioners of violence tend to become businessmen, and the businessmen become practitioners of violence. Many leading industrialists become high SS leaders … Many terrorists have assumed powerful industrial positions … The ascendance of the practitioners of violence is thus inherent in the most intense monopolization that a modern society has ever witnessed … A small group of powerful industrial, financial, and agrarian monopolists [is] tending to coalesce with a group of party hierarchs into one single bloc disposing of the means of production and the means of violence. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 311
Categorization
- DEEPTHINKING: The convergence of the means of production and the means of violence into a single bloc is a dense structural thesis about modern domination that resists summary.
- SHARE: A quotable Neumann formulation for someone deep in Frankfurt School debates on state capitalism.
- corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 311
- XREF: connects to: Extreme monopolization fuses business elites with state violence apparatuses into one bloc. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 1195; Absorbing rival elites into the ruling bloc decapitates and neutralizes opposition; Transformism absorbed opposition elites into the ruling bloc (+2 more)
Broader Connections
- Extreme monopolization fuses business elites with state violence apparatuses into one bloc.
#corroborates(1.00) — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 1195 - Absorbing rival elites into the ruling bloc decapitates and neutralizes opposition
#expands(0.85) - Transformism absorbed opposition elites into the ruling bloc
#expands(0.80) - Fully monopolized capitalism requires a state monopoly over political power to survive
#corroborates(0.75) - Violence capacity being dichotomous makes the protection market monopolistic
#expands(0.72)