Capitalism perpetually seeks new privatization frontiers like water and seeds

Evidence

Corporations and states will always seek out new frontiers of privatization—such as water, or genetically engineered seeds—that lock in our dependence on the market. The expropriation of the means of subsistence is a phenomenon that never stops: it constitutes the lifeblood of capitalism. — Clara E. Mattei, Escape from Capitalism, 81

Categorization

• SEED: Angle: the endless ‘enclosure of the commons’ as a pattern to diagnose any new privatization front — seeds, data, digital commons, water.
• XREF: connects to: Capitalism requires perpetually unsatiated desire to maintain civilizational growth — David Theo Goldberg, John Solomos, A Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies, 3420; Sustained capitalist mutation requires new institutional forms, not merely destruction — Shoshana Zuboff, The Age of Surveillance Capitalism, 156; Capitalism periodically renews itself through new organizational forms rather than fixed ones — Shoshana Zuboff, The Age of Surveillance Capitalism, 1647 (+6 more)

Broader Connections

• Industries grow without natural limits and relentlessly seek new markets #expands (0.90) — Tim Wu, The Attention Merchants, 68
• Capitalism requires perpetually unsatiated desire to maintain civilizational growth #expands (0.82) — David Theo Goldberg, John Solomos, A Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies, 3420
• Capitalism periodically renews itself through new organizational forms rather than fixed ones #expands (0.80) — Shoshana Zuboff, The Age of Surveillance Capitalism, 1647
• Sustained capitalist mutation requires new institutional forms, not merely destruction #expands (0.78) — Shoshana Zuboff, The Age of Surveillance Capitalism, 156
• Capitalism operates as opportunistic parasitism, not optimal allocation #expands (0.75) — Yves Citton, The Ecology of Attention, 180
• Regulatory-system innovation is needed to sustain capitalism’s profit logic #expands (0.72) — David Harvey, The Condition of Postmodernity, 1139