Middle-class concessions yield only formal socialism masking monopoly capitalism

Evidence

For this reason, whoever tries to achieve socialism with the help of the middle classes, and makes power and policy concessions to them on more than a temporary basis, will accomplish, with the best will in the world, only some forms of socialization, but not socialismat best, formal socialism. In the present epoch, that is in reality monopoly capitalism with state-capitalist trimmings, organized politically and economically on a corporate basis. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 572

Categorization

• DEFINE: Mandelbaum and Meyer’s distinction between real and ‘formal socialism’ as a precise analytic distinction.
• XREF: connects to: Monopoly capitalism destroys the very notion of property while retaining its form; Conflating class-State with regulated society is a reactionary middle-class error; Monopoly capitalism replaces liberal-legal institutions with irrational totalitarian authority — Martin Jay, The Dialectical Imagination: A History…, 402 (+5 more)

Broader Connections

• Monopoly capitalism destroys the very notion of property while retaining its form #expands (0.82)
• Conflating class-State with regulated society is a reactionary middle-class error #expands (0.80)
• Domination in advanced capitalism is masked as neutral administration and objectivity #expands (0.80) — Herbert Marcuse, One-Dimensional Man, 186
• Monopoly capitalism replaces liberal-legal institutions with irrational totalitarian authority #expands (0.78) — Martin Jay, The Dialectical Imagination, 402
• Capitalism’s division of labor yields ruling ideas controlled by the dominant class #expands (0.75)