Capitalism co-opts opposition and must be escaped rather than confronted

Evidence

These four anticapitalist tactics all contribute to a grand strategy Wright calls eroding capitalism, to which he adds a fifth action: escaping capitalism. Maybe capitalism is a complex, flexible system that is at this point too large and powerful to successfully tame, resist, dismantle, or smash; it always manages to co-opt its opposition. Or maybe it’s failing because of its own contradictions and will end because of its inability to produce new forms of accumulation. Either way, our organizational capacities against it might be wasted. There is still the option to escape capitalism. — Andrew deWaard, Derivative Media, 468

Categorization

• DEFINE: Defines the fifth anticapitalist tactic ‘escaping capitalism’ within Wright’s taxonomy alongside taming, resisting, dismantling, and smashing.
• XREF: Wright’s ‘eroding capitalism’ taxonomy resembles Hirschman’s exit/voice/loyalty framework from Exit, Voice, and Loyalty. — connects to: Dissent is neutralized by demands for a universal alternative system — Theodor W. Adorno, Max Horkheimer, Dialectic of Enlightenment, 227; Consumer-capitalist integration threatens rather than benefits individual freedom. — Herbert Marcuse, One-Dimensional Man: Studies in the…, 7; Domination in advanced capitalism is masked as neutral administration and objectivity — Herbert Marcuse, One-Dimensional Man: Studies in the…, 186 (+27 more)