Parties historically convert diffuse rage into organized political capital through formalization

Evidence

What effects would this repoliticization have, and what institutional forms would it take? Left parties of the mass-political era were born out of spontaneous, decentralized movements before becoming formalized, oligarchized, and eventually cartelized. Were we now witnessing the birth phase of new mass organizations—a new cycle in the making? If, to borrow Sloterdijk’s formulation, parties serve as “deposit banks for public rage” that collect affects and convert them into political capital, how would the established parties relate to the movements, and vice versa? — Anton Jäger, Hyperpolitics, 176

Categorization

• DEFINE: Sloterdijk’s ‘deposit banks for public rage’ gives a crisp, keepable formulation for how mass parties functioned.
• XREF: Connects to Michels’ ‘iron law of oligarchy’ and Katz-Mair cartel party theory, and to the reader’s mass-institutions-hollowed-out thesis. — connects to: Mass parties transform popular feeling from mechanical force into conscious, critical co-participation. — Antonio Gramsci, Selections from the Prison Notebooks, 1531; Political parties weaponize conversion bills to outmaneuver each other. — Neil DeVotta, Sinhalese Buddhist Nationalist…, 255; Hard-right Republican power runs on volunteer activists mobilized by rage transformed into political therapy — Katherine Stewart, The Power Worshippers: Inside the…, 85 (+1 more)