"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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Replying to @rortybomb
Not a super-fan but I read him. As I see it, he's not an anti-capitalist but his ideal capitalism is the pre-WWII or pre-WWI family firm. He was very uncomforatble with corporate capitalism, but unable to come up with a way of containing it or rolling it back.
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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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Yeah, exactly. The Sol Levitas/Sidney Hook tradition.
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