Class antagonism has moved inside each worker rather than between classes

Evidence

Antagonism is not now located externally, in the face-off between class blocs, but internally, in the psychology of the worker, who, as a worker, is interested in old-style class conflict, but, as someone with a pension fund, is also interested in maximizing the yield from his or her investments. There is no longer an identifiable external enemy. The consequence is, Marazzi argues, that post-Fordist workers are like the Old Testament Jews after they left the ‘house of slavery’: liberated from a bondage to which they have no wish to return but also abandoned, stranded in the desert, confused about the way forward. — Mark Fisher, Capitalist Realism, 74

Categorization

• XREF: Explains why ‘believing capitalism is bad licenses continued participation’ and why anti-capitalist protest lacks an alternative — the enemy has been internalized. — connects to: Capitalism co-opted workers’ own desire for emancipation from the Fordist factory; The 1979 Federal Reserve rate hike launched post-Fordist flexible capitalism — Mark Fisher, Capitalist Realism: Is There No…, 71; Post-Fordist work conditions undermine the very family values they increasingly depend on — Mark Fisher, Capitalist Realism: Is There No…, 70 (+4 more)

Related

• Class antagonism has moved inside the worker’s own psychology (similarity 0.90)
• Post-Fordism internalized class antagonism into individual worker psychology (similarity 0.83)
• Capital absorbed the left’s own liberation desires against it (similarity 0.82)
• Racial difference can be constructed as antagonism within a single exploited class (similarity 0.80)
• Shared exploitation does not preclude racial antagonisms within a class (similarity 0.80)
• Class antagonism cannot be deduced from the concept of capital. (similarity 0.79)

Broader Connections

• Racial difference can be constructed as antagonism within a single exploited class #exemplifies (0.75)
• Shared exploitation does not preclude racial antagonisms within a class #exemplifies (0.75) — Stuart Hall, Essential Essays, Volume 2, 138
• When everything is capital, labor and class become illegible categories #corroborates (0.75) — Wendy Brown, Undoing the Demos, 64
• Race fractures the working classes internally in ways class alone cannot explain #exemplifies (0.75)