Capital absorbed the left’s own liberation desires against it

Evidence

Both Marazzi and Sennett point out that the disintegration of stable working patterns was in part driven by the desires of workers – it was they who, quite rightly, did not wish to work in the same factory for forty years. In many ways, the left has never recovered from being wrong-footed by Capital’s mobilization and metabolization of the desire for emancipation from Fordist routine. … Antagonism is not now located externally, in the face-off between class blocs, but internally, in the psychology of the worker, who, as a worker, is interested in old-style class conflict, but, as someone with a pension fund, is also interested in maximizing the yield from his or her investments. There is no longer an identifiable external enemy. — Mark Fisher, Capitalist Realism, 74

Categorization

• DEEPTHINKING: Argues class antagonism now resides inside each worker’s psychology rather than between blocs — a subtle reworking of ideology for post-Fordism that rewards sustained thought.
• XREF: Pays off the earlier claims about reflexive impotence and how moral critique strengthens capitalist realism; internalized antagonism is its personality-level mechanism. — connects to: Capitalism is an infinitely plastic system that dismantles all transcendent codes; Liberation movements inherit the deformity of what they oppose — Fredric Jameson, Marxism and Form, 196; Liberated capitalist subjects may use their freedom to dismantle capitalism itself (+6 more)

Related

• Capital absorbed workers’ own desire to escape Fordist routine, trapping the left (similarity 0.90)
• Capital co-opted workers’ own desire for liberation from Fordist routine (similarity 0.87)
• Class antagonism has moved inside each worker rather than between classes (similarity 0.82)
• The Left seeks liberation of labor rather than liberation from labor. (similarity 0.82)
• Neoliberalism won by absorbing sixties desires the left failed to address (similarity 0.82)
• Capitalist realism is a pathology of the left, not merely a right-wing imposition. (similarity 0.79)
• Capitalism co-opted workers’ own desire for emancipation from the Fordist factory (similarity 0.79)
• Post-Fordism internalized class antagonism into individual worker psychology (similarity 0.79)
• Capitalism is an infinitely plastic system that dismantles all transcendent codes (similarity 0.79)
• Neoliberalism succeeded by capturing workers’ desire to escape Fordist strictures (similarity 0.78)
• Class antagonism has moved inside the worker’s own psychology (similarity 0.78)

Broader Connections

• Liberation movements inherit the deformity of what they oppose #expands (0.80) — Fredric Jameson, Marxism and Form, 196
• Liberated capitalist subjects may use their freedom to dismantle capitalism itself #exemplifies (0.75)