Parties converge, absorbing the working class that once opposed the system

Evidence

In the political sphere, this trend manifests itself in a marked unification or convergence of opposites. Bipartisanship in foreign policy overrides competitive group interests under the threat of international communism, and spreads to domestic policy, where the programs of the big parties become ever more undistinguishable, even in the degree of hypocrisy and in the odor of the clichés. This unification of opposites bears upon the very possibilities of social change where it embraces those strata on whose back the system progresses—that is, the very classes whose existence once embodied the opposition to the system as a whole. — Herbert Marcuse, One-Dimensional Man, 155

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to the reader’s attention economy bridge: corporate-government convergence is antecedent to today’s platform-state integration. — connects to: Movements displaced parties by attacking the class system itself; Oppositional workers’ organizations mirror capitalist structure and thereby absorb class struggle; The collapse of class parties after WWI opened the way for totalitarian movements — Hannah Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarianism, 653 (+3 more)

Broader Connections

• Movements displaced parties by attacking the class system itself #corroborates (0.82)
• The collapse of class parties after WWI opened the way for totalitarian movements #expands (0.78) — Hannah Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarianism, 653
• Parties are not passive expressions of classes but act back upon them #complicates (0.78) — Antonio Gramsci, Selections from the Prison Notebooks, 871
• Oppositional workers’ organizations mirror capitalist structure and thereby absorb class struggle #complicates (0.75)
• De-industrialisation fragmented labour and replaced class struggle with identity politics #exemplifies (0.72) — Yanis Varoufakis, Technofeudalism, 672