Capitalist economies chiefly shape people, not commodities
Evidence
The economy produces people. The production of commodities may be considered of quite minor importance except as a necessary input into people production. Our critique of the capitalist economy is simple enough; the people production process— in the workplace and in schools— is dominated by the imperatives of profit and domination rather than by human need. The unavoidable necessity of growing up and getting a job in the United States forces us all to become less than we could be: less free, less secure, in short less happy. — Samuel Bowles and Herbert Gintis, Schooling in Capitalist America, 576
Categorization
- XREF: connects to: Capitalism in Marx is a process that reprograms peoples, not a stage — Fredric Jameson, Postmodernism, or, The Cultural Logic…, 807; Escaping capitalism does not remove capitalism’s influence from within people — Jenny Odell, How to Do Nothing: Resisting the…, 163; Desire for capitalism is constructed, not natural, hence alterable — Mark Fisher (edited by Darren Ambrose), K-Punk: The Collected and Unpublished…, 1744 (+2 more)
Broader Connections
- Capitalism in Marx is a process that reprograms peoples, not a stage
#corroborates(0.85) — Fredric Jameson, Postmodernism, or, The Cultural Logic…, 807 - Escaping capitalism does not remove capitalism’s influence from within people
#expands(0.82) — Jenny Odell, How to Do Nothing, 163 - Capitalist production relations are reproduced socially and ideologically, not just economically
#expands(0.80) - Desire for capitalism is constructed, not natural, hence alterable
#expands(0.78) — Mark Fisher (edited by Darren Ambrose), K-Punk, 1744 - People remain hooked on capitalism through desire, not coercion.
#expands(0.78) — Mark Fisher (edited by Darren Ambrose), K-Punk, 1420