Private corporate discipline can be absorbed into state ideology over time

Evidence

Though these tendencies are still only “private” or only latent, they could become, at a certain point, state ideology, inserting themselves into traditional puritanism and presenting themselves as a renaissance of the pioneer morality and as the “true” America (etc.). The most noteworthy fact in the American phenomenon in relation to these manifestations is the gap which has been formed and is likely to be increasingly accentuated, between the morality and way of life of the workers and those of other strata of the population. — Antonio Gramsci, Selections from the Prison Notebooks, 1122

Categorization

• XREF: This is Gramsci’s mechanism for how private ‘civil society’ practices harden into official ideology — directly reusable for how everyday Islamophobic norms get formalized into state policy. — connects to: Corporate managerial templates were imported into think tanks in the early 1990s — Dieter Plehwe, Quinn Slobodian & Philip Mirowski (eds.), Nine Lives of Neoliberalism, 577; A distinct managerial class merged government and corporate power within capitalism — Yanis Varoufakis, Technofeudalism: What Killed Capitalism, 902