Capitalism blocks, rather than creates, collective capacity to produce and enjoy

Evidence

Real wealth is the collective capacity to produce, care and enjoy. This is Red Plenty. We, and they, have had it wrong for a while: it is not that we are anti-capitalist, it is that capitalism, with all its visored cops, its teargas, all the theological niceties of its economics, is set up to block Red Plenty. The attack on capital has to be fundamentally based on the simple insight that, far from being about “wealth creation”, capital necessarily and always blocks our access to this common wealth. Everything for everyone. All of us first. — Mark Fisher (edited by Darren Ambrose), K-Punk, 1861

Categorization

• XREF: The claim that capital blocks rather than creates wealth is a compression of a core financialization/fetishism argument shared with the Frankfurt School material and Black Marxism notes. — connects to: Capitalism commodities liberatory movements into products the privileged can consume. — bell hooks, Teaching to Transgress: Education as…, 152; Financialized capitalism productively generates new shared communities rather than merely destroying them — Aris Komporozos-Athanasiou, Speculative Communities: Living With…, 98; Capitalism functions by redirecting social reproduction toward its own ends — Max Haiven, Cultures of Financialization, 347 (+4 more)
• DEFINE: Defines ‘Red Plenty’ as the positive collectivist vision that goes beyond mere anti-capitalist negation.

Broader Connections

• Financialized capitalism productively generates new shared communities rather than merely destroying them #contradicts (0.92) — Aris Komporozos-Athanasiou, Speculative Communities, 98
• Advanced capitalism generates a false conviction of individual centrality that blocks collective action #corroborates (0.88) — Donna Landry and Gerald MacLean, The Spivak Reader, 808
• Capitalism’s own productive development raised worker living standards and defused revolutionary hunger #complicates (0.82) — Dirk Braunstein, Adorno’s Critique of Political Economy, 662
• Capitalism operates as opportunistic parasitism, not optimal allocation #corroborates (0.78) — Yves Citton, The Ecology of Attention, 180
• Capitalism functions by redirecting social reproduction toward its own ends #expands (0.74) — Max Haiven, Cultures of Financialization, 347
• Capitalism structurally requires excess for some and deprivation for others #expands (0.73) — James D. Kirylo (ed.), Reinventing Pedagogy of the Oppressed, 1094