Parliament favors business because business is its only organized pressure group.
Evidence
Why does parliamentary politics serve the interest of business? Because business is the only effective agent acting upon it. The point is: Why is capitalist realism rife in parliamentary politics? You can’t explain that in terms of the logic of parliamentary politics itself. Parliamentary politics is in many ways responding to the situation outside it, such as the decline of trade unions, etc. The classic situation of the Seventies was where the politicians were caught between business on the one hand and trade unions on the other. What we need to do is constitute a force outside of parliament strong enough that it becomes a dominant influence on parliament. — Mark Fisher (edited by Darren Ambrose), K-Punk, 2185
Categorization
- XREF: This is essentially an interest-group pluralism argument that echoes the law-merchant/trust-institution material on how concentrated organized interests dominate dispersed ones. — connects to: Most interest-group lobbying represents business, not the poor or workers. — Martin Gilens and Benjamin I. Page, Testing Theories of American Politics:…, 40; The State’s dominant group presents its interests as universal rather than corporate. — Antonio Gramsci, Selections from the Prison Notebooks, 762
- SEED: Angle: why the left lost — the asymmetry of organized pressure, using the 1970s tripartite squeeze as the pivot. Could fold in Olson’s logic of collective action.
Broader Connections
- Most interest-group lobbying represents business, not the poor or workers.
#corroborates(0.85) — Martin Gilens and Benjamin I. Page, Testing Theories of American Politics, 40 - The State’s dominant group presents its interests as universal rather than corporate.
#complicates(0.78) — Antonio Gramsci, Selections from the Prison Notebooks, 762