Much societal power remains beyond the political system’s reach

Evidence

“Capitalism was from the beginning an affair of the world economy and not of nation-states… . Capital has never allowed its aspirations to be determined by national boundaries.” Capitalism has been such a fundamental globalising influence precisely because it is an economic rather than a political order; it has been able to penetrate far-flung areas of the world which the states of its origin could not have brought wholly under their political sway. — Anthony Giddens, The Consequences of Modernity, 174 (#exemplifies, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Power cannot self-realize but depends on societal-structural conditions for legitimacy; Capitalism’s non-political nature enabled its global penetration beyond state reach — Anthony Giddens, The Consequences of Modernity, 174; The core problem is power that resists politicization (+4 more)

Related

• Capitalism’s non-political nature enabled its global penetration beyond state reach (similarity 0.84)
• A capitalist society is a society only because it is a nation-state (similarity 0.81)
• Industrial growth subordinated political power to economic capacity (similarity 0.80)
• Hereditary economic power persists despite the abolition of political dynasties (similarity 0.79)
• The economy never operates free of political and ideological practices (similarity 0.79)
• Demographic explosion and industrialization forced power beyond sovereignty (similarity 0.79)
• State power derives from sovereign capabilities, not merely economic wealth (similarity 0.79)
• Capitalism becomes a whole way of life only through the state’s ethical civilizing work. (similarity 0.79)
• Economic dominance does not automatically translate into political rule (similarity 0.78)
• Hayek described the global market as transcendent and beyond representation (similarity 0.78)
• Economic problems are political problems about how social power is distributed (similarity 0.78)
• No single power can any longer impose total world order (similarity 0.78)

Broader Connections

• The core problem is power that resists politicization #corroborates (0.90)
• Capitalism’s non-political nature enabled its global penetration beyond state reach #exemplifies (0.80) — Anthony Giddens, The Consequences of Modernity, 174
• Society operates as a complex formation structured in dominance with relative institutional autonomy #expands (0.75)
• Hereditary economic power persists despite the abolition of political dynasties #exemplifies (0.70) — Bertrand Russell, History of Western Philosophy, 2250