1/4) Reminder that social progressivism was only truly enabled by the logic of capital - to open up to economic liberalism is to allow yourself to be wide open to subversion. With capital controls and regulations..., https://twitter.com/Gravelord_Kyle/status/1288224051643789312
2/4) there would not have been a Ford/Rockefeller/Carnegie Foundation to bankroll the the Cathedral. No Civil Rights movement, no BLM, no New Left.

The problem is more dire than just capitalism because the dominance of the merchant class is dependent on economic liberalism.
3/4) The competitive logic of capitalism that operates as a positive feedback loop rests by necessity upon the very mechanisms of imperium in imperio - insecure power and inter-institutional conflict that propelled revolutions destroyed Europe.
4/4) To use Neoplatonic terminology - the positive feedback loop of interinstitutional conflict that political liberalisation brought about overflowed itself and produced the positive feedback loop of capitalism as an emanation of itself.
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