“It reminds us of John Dewey’s claim that, “As long as politics is the shadow cast on society by big business, the attenuation of the shadow will not change the substance.”

In the US, the two-party political system has proven extremely effective in this regard. Aside from differences on social issues like abortion and gay marriage, as well as socioeconomic issues like unemployment insurance and public assistance, both parties ultimately embrace capitalist/corporatist interests in that they both serve as facilitators for the dominant classes: The Republican Party in its role as forerunner, pushing the limits of the capitalist model to the brink of fascism; and the Democratic Party in its role as governor, providing intermittent degrees of slack and pull against this inevitable move towards a “corporate-fascistic state of being.” — “Calibrating the Capitalist State in the Neoliberal Era: Equilibrium, Superstructure, and the Pull Towards a Corporate-Fascistic Model” Colin Jenkins

https://www.hamptonthink.org/read/calibrating-the-capitalist-state-in-the-neoliberal-era-equilibrium-superstructure-and-the-pull-towards-a-corporate-fascistic-model

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