Capitalized warfare reverses workers’ and citizens’ bargaining power over states.

Evidence

Silver explains how the structural effect of these mutations in modes of war reduced the material dependence of the state apparatus on military work and hence likewise the social dependence on the bodies that made up that workforce: “As such, the growing bargaining power of workers and citizens vis-à-vis their states—an inadvertent by-product of the inter-imperialist and Cold War rivalries of the late nineteenth and twentieth centuries—is being reversed, along with many of the economic and social benefits achieved.” — Grégoire Chamayou, A Theory of the Drone, 600

Categorization

• XREF: Directly serves the reader’s interest in how drones reshaped political and ethical norms — bargaining power loss is the mechanism. — connects to: State dependence on soldiers’ bodies secured social bargaining power; Substituting capital for soldiers gives the state social autonomy

Related

• Substituting capital for soldiers gives the state social autonomy (similarity 0.87)
• State dependence on soldiers’ bodies secured social bargaining power (similarity 0.85)
• Mass conscription made leaders socially dependent on working classes for war. (similarity 0.81)
• Dronization trades the state’s social branch for its armed branch. (similarity 0.80)