Capitalist rationalization attempts to co-opt worker militancy through co-operative management schemes

Evidence

The organization’s answer to the autonomy of moral behaviour is the heteronomy of instrumental and procedural rationalities. Law and interest displace and replace gratuity and the sanctionlessness of moral drive. Actors are challenged to justify their conduct by reason as defined either by the goal or by the rules of behaviour. Only actions thought of and argued in such a way, or fit to be narrated in such a way, are admitted into the class of genuinely social action, that is rational action, that is an action that serves as the defining property of actors as social actors. By the same token, actions that fail to meet the criteria of goal-pursuit or procedural discipline are declared non-social, irrational – and private. The organization’s way of socializing action includes, as its indispensable corollary, the privatization of morality. — Zygmunt Bauman, Modernity and the Holocaust, 612 (#corroborates, via linked claim)

Marx however insisted, not merely that men live their relations to their real conditions of existence “in ideology,” but that, in the capitalist mode of production, they will “think” those conditions, in general, within the limits of a dominant ideology; and that, generally, this will tend to be the ideology of the dominant classes . The fact that the proletariat “lives” the collective socialization of labor, under capitalism, through the fragmenting form of the market , and thinks this condition of its material life within the discourses which organize market practices ideologically (or that, under capitalism the proletariat “lives” the expropriation of surplus value in the “ideological form” of wages —a form giving rise to its own ideological discourses: wage bargaining, economism, what Lenin called “trade-union consciousness,” “a fair day’s wage for a fair day’s work,” etc.) is not, for Marx, simply a descriptive feature of capitalism. These ideological inflections perform a pivotal role in the maintenance of capitalist relations and in their continuing domination within the social formation. — Hall, Stuart, Essential Essays, Volume 1, 903 (#contradicts, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Gramsci’s concept of ‘Dirigente’ links cultural hegemony to workers controlling the work process; Capital accumulation lowers profit rates unless exploitation intensifies via labour rationalisation; Capitalists are opportunistic adapters, not the germ of a new rational order (+20 more)

Related

• Social organization displaces autonomous moral drive with instrumental and procedural rationality (similarity 0.83)
• Organizations suppress morality because it cannot be rationalized (similarity 0.79)

Broader Connections

• Capitalists are opportunistic adapters, not the germ of a new rational order #expands (0.82)
• Social organization displaces autonomous moral drive with instrumental and procedural rationality #corroborates (0.80) — Zygmunt Bauman, Modernity and the Holocaust, 612
• Ideological forms like wages serve to maintain capitalist domination #contradicts (0.75) — Hall, Stuart, Essential Essays, Volume 1, 903