Capitalism is symptomatic of a deeper civilizational disorder that Marxism fails to name

Evidence

Among my colleagues there was the sense that something so important as to challenge the very foundations of progressive politics and thought lay beyond the conceptualizations that admittedly had inspired formidable displays of progressive work and activity. Some knowledge, some aspect of Black consciousness was unaccounted for in the Marxist explication of the historical processes and source of the motives to which were attributed the social formations of the modern world. … It seemed a certainty that the system of capitalism was part of it, but as well symptomatic of it. It needed a name as the philosopher Hobbes might say. It was not simply a question of outrage or concern for Black survival. It was a matter of comprehension. — Cedric J. Robinson, Black Marxism_ The Making of the Black…, 1427

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Psychiatric disorder rose with industrial capitalism’s onset around 1750 — Mark Fisher (edited by Darren Ambrose), K-Punk: The Collected and Unpublished…, 1406; Capitalism now annexes life processes beyond labor, which orthodox labor-centered Marxism cannot explain. — Nick Couldry & Ulises A. Mejias, The Costs of Connection: How Data Is…, 143; An economic boom coexisting with mass youth depression signals late capitalism’s affective failure. — Mark Fisher (edited by Darren Ambrose), K-Punk: The Collected and Unpublished…, 2122