Capitalist power infected and colonized state, deliberative, and propaganda powers.
Evidence
Capitalism introduced a fourth type of extractive power, which helped it reshape the world: 7.4 Capitalist Power: the power vested in owners of capital (i.e. capitalists) to command those lacking capital voluntarily to generate surplus value for the capitalists within their firms. … Note: Capitalist Power (7.4) extended beyond the confines of the capitalist firm and infected the pre-existing three types of extractive power. E.g. the capitalist class largely controlled the state’s monopoly of lethal force (7.1), society’s deliberative processes (7.2) and, via the media, the education system, the machinery of propaganda, etc. (7.3). — Yanis Varoufakis, Technofeudalism, 839
Categorization
- XREF: Connects to the platform-rent thesis and to Weber’s monopoly of legitimate violence — how one extractive power subsumes others. — connects to: Nazi political power emancipated itself from big-business control to the point of autonomy. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 1198; Extreme monopolization fuses business elites with state violence apparatuses into one bloc. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 1195; American capitalism secretly adopted Soviet centralized planning principles in the 1960s. — Yanis Varoufakis, Technofeudalism: What Killed Capitalism, 158 (+20 more)
- corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — Yanis Varoufakis, Technofeudalism: What Killed Capitalism, 839
Broader Connections
- Totalitarian political regimes are symptoms of deeper economic systematization
#corroborates(0.90) - Surveillance capitalism is a species of power comparable in significance to totalitarianism
#complicates(0.90) — Shoshana Zuboff, The Age of Surveillance Capitalism, 1699 - State intervention to save capitalism exposed its supposedly natural order as political
#complicates(0.90) — Clara E. Mattei, Escape from Capitalism, 169 - Sustained capitalist mutation requires new institutional forms, not merely destruction
#complicates(0.90) — Shoshana Zuboff, The Age of Surveillance Capitalism, 156 - Capitalist states regulate migration, demography, and crime in racial terms
#corroborates(0.90) - State intervention made capitalist exploitation political and thereby threatened capitalism itself
#complicates(0.85) — Clara E. Mattei, Escape from Capitalism, 173 - A distinct managerial class merged government and corporate power within capitalism
#epitomizes(0.85) — Yanis Varoufakis, Technofeudalism, 902 - State capitalism substitutes the power motive for the profit motive
#complicates(0.85) — Martin Jay, The Dialectical Imagination, 485 - Imperialism newly made power and violence themselves the conscious aim of the state
#expands(0.85) — Hannah Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarianism, 373 - Industrial capitalism operates as a machine that degrades and mechanizes colonized peoples
#complicates(0.80) — Aimé Césaire, Discourse on Colonialism, 265 - Global capitalism depends on depicting abject others to justify its operation
#expands(0.80) — David Theo Goldberg, John Solomos, A Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies, 3422 - State capitalism’s inner tendency is identity, community, and stability
#responds-to(0.80) - Capitalist accumulation was built on colonial conquest and enslavement.
#complicates(0.80) — Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz, An Indigenous Peoples’ History of the…, 82 - The administrative state produces unpolitical citizens within a political society
#corroborates(0.80) — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 2337 - Neo-liberal capitalism decentralizes authority yet intensifies domination.
#responds-to(0.75) — Catherine Malabou, What Should We Do with Our Brain?, 141