Capitalism requires willing state complicity in producing compliant labor forms

Evidence

At the same time, as Immanuel Wallerstein points out, capitalism (and by extension, colonialism) cannot flourish without the active participation of the state, which controls the relations of production by legalizing (or refusing to regulate) certain forms of labor, such as slavery in the past or temporary or gig-based work nowadays. — Nick Couldry & Ulises A. Mejias, The Costs of Connection, 162

Categorization

• XREF: Directly relevant to the reader’s gig-economy and surveillance-of-labor interests; Wallerstein’s state-collaboration thesis parallels the surveillance school’s account of state-platform entanglements. — connects to: Capitalism calibrates incentives to make workers risk death for subsistence — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 194; Capitalism requires disciplining workers into accepting private property and wage relations — Clara E. Mattei, The Capital Order: How Economists…, 834; Ideological forms like wages serve to maintain capitalist domination — Hall, Stuart, Essential Essays, Volume 1, 903 (+6 more)

Broader Connections

• Capitalism requires disciplining workers into accepting private property and wage relations #expands (0.90) — Clara E. Mattei, The Capital Order, 834
• Ideological forms like wages serve to maintain capitalist domination #expands (0.82) — Hall, Stuart, Essential Essays, Volume 1, 903
• Capitalism reproduces itself by drawing civil and cultural life into conformity with its needs #expands (0.80)
• Workers internalize capitalist values and accept precarity as deserved #expands (0.78) — Clara E. Mattei, The Capital Order, 63
• Social reproduction of labor-power requires family, education, and cultural institutions #expands (0.75)