Capitalism requires disciplining workers into accepting private property and wage relations

Evidence

Austerity was most certainly a political project, but its assumptions weren’t necessarily wrong. Indeed, it laid bare an undeniable truth: for capitalism to function, workers had to be disciplined into accepting the two pillars of capital accumulation— the primacy of private property and wage relations. — Clara E. Mattei, The Capital Order, 834

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Capitalism calibrates incentives to make workers risk death for subsistence — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 194; Capitalism requires willing state complicity in producing compliant labor forms — Nick Couldry & Ulises A. Mejias, The Costs of Connection: How Data Is…, 162; Workers internalize capitalist values and accept precarity as deserved — Clara E. Mattei, The Capital Order: How Economists…, 63 (+10 more)

Broader Connections

• Ideological forms like wages serve to maintain capitalist domination #corroborates (0.85) — Hall, Stuart, Essential Essays, Volume 1, 903
• Workers internalize capitalist values and accept precarity as deserved #corroborates (0.82) — Clara E. Mattei, The Capital Order, 63
• Austerity enforces the wage-labor relation that capitalism requires for growth #exemplifies (0.80) — Clara E. Mattei, The Capital Order, 29
• Even free labor under capitalism is subject to economic compulsion to sell labor-power. #qualifies (0.78) — Hall, Stuart, Essential Essays, Volume 1, 599
• Capitalist production confines workers so thoroughly they fall victim to offerings #expands (0.75)