Capitalism commodities liberatory movements into products the privileged can consume.

Evidence

Within white supremacist capitalist patriarchy, we have already witnessed the commodification of feminist thinking (just as we experience the commodification of blackness) in ways that make it seem as though one can partake of the “good ” that these movements produce without any commitment to transformative politics and practice. In this capitalist culture, feminism and feminist theory are fast becoming a commodity that only the privileged can afford. This process of commodification is disrupted and subverted when as feminist activists we affirm our commitment to a politicized revolutionary feminist movement that has as its central agenda the transformation of society. — bell hooks, Teaching to Transgress, 152

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to the commodification of blackness hooks names here and to later critiques of diversity-as-consumption; also resonates with Adorno/Horkheimer culture industry arguments about neutralizing radical content. — connects to: Capitalism blocks, rather than creates, collective capacity to produce and enjoy — Mark Fisher (edited by Darren Ambrose), K-Punk: The Collected and Unpublished…, 1861; Commodity wealth converts revolutionary movements into profiteers or strengthens them depending on discipline — Charles Tilly, Regimes and Repertoires, 1106; Under spectacle capitalism, appearing replaced having as the commodity exchanged — Aris Komporozos-Athanasiou, Speculative Communities: Living with…, 304 (+2 more)
• ADDENDUM: Parallel to how the ‘Complaints About Immodesty’ piece treats moral panic absorption, though the stronger tie is that purely lifestyle-based identity movements without structural politics get co-opted.

Broader Connections

• Commodity wealth converts revolutionary movements into profiteers or strengthens them depending on discipline #qualifies (0.80) — Charles Tilly, Regimes and Repertoires, 1106
• Capitalism reproduces itself by drawing civil and cultural life into conformity with its needs #expands (0.80)
• Under spectacle capitalism, appearing replaced having as the commodity exchanged #expands (0.78) — Aris Komporozos-Athanasiou, Speculative Communities, 304
• Liberated capitalist subjects may use their freedom to dismantle capitalism itself #complicates (0.73)
• Capitalism blocks, rather than creates, collective capacity to produce and enjoy #complicates (0.72) — Mark Fisher (edited by Darren Ambrose), K-Punk, 1861