Capital’s counterrevolution was experienced as a quasi-religious purification
Evidence
Tasca eloquently captured the counterrevolutionary spirit: “Th ey [the industrialists] received the jolt [scossa] of [one who,] having bordered death and now returning to life, feels like a new man” (Tasca 1965, 129– 30). He added, “the blood that they will have spilled will appear to them as a ritual of an expiatory ceremony, necessary for the purifi cation of the violated temple of private property” (ibid., 143). — Clara E. Mattei, The Capital Order, 577
Categorization
- ADDENDUM: The quasi-religious framing of capital’s bloody defense of property connects directly to the ‘On Sacrifice’ piece — the industrialists’ expiatory-ceremony language parallels ritualized violence stabilizing hierarchy.
- XREF: connects to: Spiritual and countercultural protest gets absorbed harmlessly by the system; Capital absorbed the left’s own liberation desires against it — Mark Fisher, Capitalist Realism: Is There No…, 74; Capitalism emerged ideologically through intensified spiritualization rather than secularization (+1 more)
Broader Connections
- Spiritual and countercultural protest gets absorbed harmlessly by the system
#corroborates(0.85) - Capital absorbed the left’s own liberation desires against it
#expands(0.85) — Mark Fisher, Capitalist Realism, 74 - Capitalism emerged ideologically through intensified spiritualization rather than secularization
#expands(0.80) - Even radical interventions like The Clash get reabsorbed by capital
#exemplifies(0.80) — Fredric Jameson, Postmodernism, or, The Cultural Logic…, 158