Even anti-establishment provocateurs yield when real capital objects.

Evidence

Bolsonaro announced that he would be abolishing the Environmental Ministry. But this was the first moment that his brand of provocative anti-politics clashed with reality. Just because you believe your country can get rich if it stops listening to the politically correct, gay, rainforest-loving, communist environmentalist scientists does not mean it’s actually true. Brazilian agribusiness already quite liked the current setup in the country, and they told him it would be against their interests to abolish the ministry. So he didn’t. But by starving the indigenous defense and environmental defense agencies of resources, and clearly aligning with extractive interests in the Amazon, he gave illegal miners and loggers space to increase their violent dominion over parts of the vast rainforest. — Vincent Bevins, If We Burn, 728

Categorization

• ADDENDUM: Directly relevant to the trees-as-infrastructure piece: how starving environmental agencies empowers illegal extractive dominion is a real-world case of undermaintained green infrastructure.
• XREF: connects to: Capital precedes and shapes resistance rather than resistance driving capital — Fredric Jameson, Postmodernism, or, The Cultural Logic…, 923; Neoliberal capital profits by commodifying resistance itself — Max Haiven, Cultures of Financialization, 531; Speculative finance fragments persons into rateable dividuals, making whole-individual resistance obsolete — Aris Komporozos-Athanasiou, Speculative Communities: Living With…, 312 (+2 more)

Broader Connections

• Capital precedes and shapes resistance rather than resistance driving capital #corroborates (0.85) — Fredric Jameson, Postmodernism, or, The Cultural Logic…, 923
• Financial accumulation depends on resistance rather than pure top-down power #contradicts (0.82) — Max Haiven, Cultures of Financialization, 500
• Neoliberal capital profits by commodifying resistance itself #qualifies (0.78) — Max Haiven, Cultures of Financialization, 531
• Speculative finance fragments persons into rateable dividuals, making whole-individual resistance obsolete #corroborates (0.75) — Aris Komporozos-Athanasiou, Speculative Communities, 312
• The mafioso profits from deliberately injecting distrust into markets #exemplifies (0.72)