State capitalism’s inner tendency is identity, community, and stability

Evidence

In this connection Huxley coined the motto of ‘Identity, Community, Stability’ which certainly captures the innermost tendency of emergent state capitalism, even if it was chosen with the apologetic intention of defending the individual in such a way that it works to the advantage of the monopoly itself. — Theodor W. Adorno, The Culture Industry, 298

Categorization

Category: Causal Relationships

• XREF: The ‘Identity, Community, Stability’ trio is an early-mid-20th-century articulation of what the reader sees in modern corporate ‘community’ branding — worth testing against current tech-platform discourse.