Capital depends on our cooperation even as it zombifies us

Evidence

What needs to be kept in mind is both that capitalism is a hyper-abstract impersonal structure and that it would be nothing without our co-operation. The most Gothic description of Capital is also the most accurate. Capital is an abstract parasite, an insatiable vampire and zombie-maker; but the living flesh it converts into dead labor is ours, and the zombies it makes are us. There is a sense in which it simply is the case that the political elite are our servants; the miserable service they provide from us is to launder our libidos, to obligingly re-present for us our disavowed desires as if they had nothing to do with us. — Mark Fisher, Capitalist Realism, 33

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Capitalism cannot function without its ideological disguises and myths — Mark Fisher, Capitalist Realism: Is There No…, 96; Capital is a hyper-abstract structure that runs on our voluntary cooperation — Mark Fisher, Capitalist Realism: Is There No…, 33; Capital is a hyper-abstract structure that still depends wholly on human cooperation. (+6 more)

Related

• Capital is a hyper-abstract structure that runs on our voluntary cooperation (similarity 0.96)
• Capital depends on us more than we depend on it (similarity 0.96)
• Capital is abstract yet depends entirely on our voluntary cooperation. (similarity 0.96)
• Capital is an abstract parasite that converts our living cooperation into dead labor (similarity 0.93)
• Capital is a hyper-abstract structure that still depends wholly on human cooperation. (similarity 0.92)
• Capital operates as a collective dream sustained by our own desires and energy (similarity 0.85)
• Capital cannot survive without humans even though humans could survive without it. (similarity 0.82)
• Capitalism functions only through our complicity and cooperation (similarity 0.82)
• Capital is both a commodity and a coercive social force. (similarity 0.79)

Broader Connections

• Capital is a hyper-abstract structure that runs on our voluntary cooperation #corroborates (0.90) — Mark Fisher, Capitalist Realism, 33
• Capital is a hyper-abstract structure that still depends wholly on human cooperation. #corroborates (0.90)
• Capital operates as a collective dream sustained by our own desires and energy #expands (0.80)
• Capital is a social relation conferring extractive power, not just machinery #expands (0.75) — Yanis Varoufakis, Technofeudalism, 792
• Capital is constitutively blind to its own nature like a disconnected AI #expands (0.75) — Mark Fisher (edited by Darren Ambrose), K-Punk, 1979