The glass half full take would be that European pols want to present capital markets union to voters as “we have finally triumphed over those lazy bureaucrats in Brussels”

… a matter of aligning with the expectations of the occupying powers.

Well, this is pure speculation and distinguishing this empirically is certainly not too easy.

I was primarily looking at Berlin, but it could be true for all of Germany - to a certain extent and in different directions. For many Germans in the West voting for parties compatible with liberal capitalism might have been a deliberate choice (and relief), for others it might just have been …

This looks more like some sort of „vorauseilender Gehorsam“ with people knowing very well in which sector they live and whom they are expected to vote for - and less like social structure.
Just coming from 12 years of NSDAP rule they knew how to be obedient.

Well put

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Are they? From an anthropological point of view, there were and still are plenty of non-capitalist societies living their steady-state way of life.