Conquest of power and new productive arrangements are inseparable

Evidence

If the economic take-off of the West began with the techniques that made possible the accumulation of capital, it might perhaps be said that the methods for administering the accumulation of men made possible a political take-off in relation to the traditional, ritual, costly, violent forms of power, which soon fell into disuse and were superseded by a subtle, calculated technology of subjection. In fact, the two processes – the accumulation of men and the accumulation of capital – cannot be separated; it would not have been possible to solve the problem of the accumulation of men without the growth of an apparatus of production capable of both sustaining them and using them; conversely, the techniques that made the cumulative multiplicity of men useful accelerated the accumulation of capital. — Michel Foucault, Discipline & Punish- The Birth of the…, 345 (#expands, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Accumulation must always conquer political power to continue expanding.; The accumulation of men and of capital are inseparable processes. — Michel Foucault, Discipline & Punish- The Birth of the…, 345; Power rests on arrangements over what is possible

Related

• The accumulation of men and of capital are inseparable processes. (similarity 0.92)

Broader Connections

• The accumulation of men and of capital are inseparable processes. #expands (0.85) — Michel Foucault, Discipline & Punish- The Birth of the…, 345
• Power rests on arrangements over what is possible #expands (0.75)