Capital co-opted workers’ own desire for liberation from Fordist routine

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. — Mark Fisher, Capitalist Realism, 74

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. — Mark Fisher, Capitalist Realism, 74

Categorization

• SEED: Strong essay angle: the left lost because workers’ legitimate desires were absorbed into flexible capitalism — emancipation rhetoric hijacked by deregulatory politics.
• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — Mark Fisher, Capitalist Realism: Is There No…, 74
• XREF: connects to: Factory occupation felt to workers like the working class seizing its own future — Clara E. Mattei, The Capital Order: How Economists…, 553; Capitalism co-opted workers’ own desire for emancipation from the Fordist factory; Capital absorbed workers’ own desire to escape Fordist routine, trapping the left — Mark Fisher (edited by Darren Ambrose), K-Punk: The Collected and Unpublished…, 1405 (+10 more)

Broader Connections

• Capitalism co-opted workers’ own desire for emancipation from the Fordist factory #corroborates (0.97)
• Capital absorbed workers’ own desire to escape Fordist routine, trapping the left #corroborates (0.95) — Mark Fisher (edited by Darren Ambrose), K-Punk, 1405
• Capital absorbed the left’s own liberation desires against it #corroborates (0.90) — Mark Fisher, Capitalist Realism, 74
• Neoliberalism succeeded by capturing workers’ desire to escape Fordist strictures #expands (0.88) — Mark Fisher (edited by Darren Ambrose), K-Punk, 1504
• Enlightened capitalism captures workers with diversions that dissipate their transcendence #complicates (0.78) — Simone de Beauvoir, The Ethics of Ambiguity, 89
• Capitalist rationalization attempts to co-opt worker militancy through co-operative management schemes #expands (0.75)
• Worker demands arise from outside capital’s own logic. #contradicts (0.72) — Ernesto Laclau, On Populist Reason, 455