Workers need formal mass organization while capitalists stay organized informally

Evidence

Capitalists are always organized. They need in most cases no formal union, no rules, officers, etc. Their small number, as compared with that of the workman, the fact of their forming a separate class, their constant social and commercial intercourse stand them in lieu of that … On the other hand, the workpeople from the very beginning cannot do without a strong organization, well-defined by rules and delegating its authority to officers and committees … The formerly helpless mass, divided against itself, was no longer so. — Anton Jäger, Hyperpolitics, 162

Categorization

• XREF: This is the Marx/Engels premise that grounds the whole ‘Putnam from the Left’ asymmetrical thesis — connects to Marx’s Eighteenth Brumaire and the later chapters’ core claim about hollowed-out institutions.
• DEFINE: Sets up why deinstitutionalization hurts the left asymmetrically: the bar for collective success is inherently higher for workers.