"Robert Nisbet was critical of the central state and capitalism each undermining civil society. He argued that they fed into each other, with the later requiring the former." Fair? I'm not sure how correct it is to read Nisbet as a "critic" of capitalism. Any super fans here?
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second. RN could sound similar to R Kirk & the Agrarians in this area. Roepke another reasonable comparison.
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looking for a completely different bk in some boxes, i ran across Nisbet's 1988 The Present Age. social dissolution via the "cash nexus" is a major theme.
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Right. A lot feels like it was already anachronistic by the time of Reconstruction. Though in "Quest for Community" there's a section about the positives of the civil society institution of labor unions, though modern day social capital invokers really ignore this.
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I think there was a strain of neo-conservatism -- the Scoop Jackson wing -- that tried to bring in unions as a conservative bulwark. You see that in Michael Novak & RJ Neuhaus & Peter Berger. But that strain is extinct now, or almost so.
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