Capital relates to society as sorcery and challenge, not contract.

Evidence

Capital, in fact, was never linked by a contract to the society that it dominates. It is a sorcery of social relations, it is a challenge to society, and it must be responded to as such. It is not a scandal to be denounced according to moral or economic rationality, but a challenge to take up according to symbolic law. — Jean Baudrillard, Simulacra and Simulation, 59

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to the sacrificial/symbolic-exchange strand of Baudrillard’s thought and to Durkheimian/Maussian gift theory; also echoes the reader’s earlier work on sacrifice. — connects to: Liberty and desire are capital’s own products, not its opposites. — Jean Baudrillard, Simulacra and Simulation, 460; Pure economics redefined capital as deserved savings, not a social relation. — Clara E. Mattei, Escape from Capitalism: An Intervention, 221; Laws and property are a permanent war waged by conquerors, not peace — Michel Foucault, Society Must Be Defended, 123

Broader Connections

• Laws and property are a permanent war waged by conquerors, not peace #expands (0.85) — Michel Foucault, Society Must Be Defended, 123
• Liberty and desire are capital’s own products, not its opposites. #expands (0.80) — Jean Baudrillard, Simulacra and Simulation, 460
• Pure economics redefined capital as deserved savings, not a social relation. #contradicts (0.78) — Clara E. Mattei, Escape from Capitalism, 221