Capital abandons regions then re-exploits them via new investment

Evidence

In other words, capital produces economic disparity through its withdrawal from regions such as Lehigh Valley, abandoning workers to a life seemingly beyond the limits of capitalist exploitation and then “saving” these same abandoned workers through “new” forms of investment that subsume what capital initially placed beyond its own limits. — Grant Bollmer, Katherine Guinness, The Influencer Factory, 285

Categorization

• XREF: Relates to Mandel’s formal subsumption and the reader’s causal chain: deindustrialization creates the surplus population that enables cheap warehouse labor, which feeds aspirant influencers. — connects to: Overseas investment absorbed US surplus capacity by creating global mass markets — David Harvey, The Condition of Postmodernity: An…, 821; Capital’s managers have defaulted to retromanic repetition rather than innovation — Mark Fisher (edited by Darren Ambrose), K-Punk: The Collected and Unpublished…, 1970