Even though Tyler is supposed to represent everything that Jack isn't, from the moment Tyler begins building up an army you begin to see references to the corporatism that he claims to hate so much. Not only is Tyler/Jack constantly called "sir" (pretty clearly opposing Tyler's original assertion that there is no leader to fight club), but at some point Jack returns to the house to find a bunch of the army-member-people answering phones, with labelled filing folders stuck to the wall. Kind of looks like Jack's old office building to me. The most striking example of this was when Jack was trying to find Tyler, and he goes into the laundromat and the man he asks there responds with "I'm not supposed to speak any such information to you, nor would I even if I had said information you want at this juncture be able (or something like that he's kind of mumbling)". Regardless, it sounds a) incredibly rehearsed and b) exactly like every customer service phone person at every company ever. Also he gets a lot of really special treatment from the general public. And free food.
The way that I interpreted this, in the context of the ideological state apparatuses, is in its affect on Jake/Tyler. While he is clearly trying to seize state power and control of repressive state apparatuses through project Mayhem, it is apparent that the ideological state apparatuses put in place by the corporate bourgeois (that of organization, hierarchy, and the like) have still managed to get to Tyler and he seems to act along those principles. Thus the true "hunter-gatherer" society he envisions will never be possible as long as this ideology is so firmly engrained in even the most subversive of characters.
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