Once in power, political machines can emancipate themselves from the capital that installed them.

Evidence

The Soviet Union presents a clear-cut marginal case where political power not only has made itself supreme but has become the fount of whatever economic power positions exist. Nazi Germany, on the other hand, exhibited a transitional case. It is undisputed that the Nazi party rose to power with the financial and political assistance of German big-business leaders who doubtless hoped to use the party for the promotion of their own interests. But the party, once having achieved power, emancipated itself from business control, and its political power became autonomous … It is quite safe to assume that, had there been no war or had the Nazis been victorious, the Soviet pattern would have prevailed. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 311

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to Pollock’s state-capitalism thesis and the Frankfurt School’s Soviet-planned-economy debates. — connects to: Politics loses its freedom once Capital becomes a new transcendent master. — Byung-Chul Han, Psychopolitics: Neoliberalism and New…, 29; An image of independence from one’s machine can itself be a political asset — Robert A. Caro, The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the…, 570; Sacralized politics yields a self-sustaining power structure resistant to change — Nadim N. Rouhana and Nadera Shalhoub-Kevorkian, When Politics Are Sacralized:…, 108 (+3 more)
• QUESTION: How far can the Nazi case be generalized to other regimes financed by capital but later autonomous from it?
• yield-rescued: below the book’s yield-target cutoff, included anyway for connecting to: Politics loses its freedom once Capital becomes a new transcendent master. — Byung-Chul Han, Psychopolitics: Neoliberalism and New…, 29; An image of independence from one’s machine can itself be a political asset — Robert A. Caro, The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the…, 570; Sacralized politics yields a self-sustaining power structure resistant to change — Nadim N. Rouhana and Nadera Shalhoub-Kevorkian, When Politics Are Sacralized:…, 108 (+3 more)