Late capitalist life forces individuals to identify with the power that oppresses them

Evidence

Life in the late capitalist era is a constant initiation rite. Everyone must show that he wholly identifies himself with the power which is belaboring him. — Theodor W. Adorno, Max Horkheimer, Dialectic of Enlightenment, 116

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to the initiation-rite motif in Things Fall Apart and to Foucault’s analysis of disciplinary power making subjects internalize oppression. — connects to: Administered needs cause individuals to identify with and submit to domination — Herbert Marcuse, One-Dimensional Man: Studies in the…, 39; Marx’s general intellect can empower capital’s appropriation of social life, not only liberate workers. — Nick Couldry & Ulises A. Mejias, The Costs of Connection: How Data Is…, 794; Workers internalize capitalist values and accept precarity as deserved — Clara E. Mattei, The Capital Order: How Economists…, 63 (+6 more)

Broader Connections

• Administered needs cause individuals to identify with and submit to domination #corroborates (0.95) — Herbert Marcuse, One-Dimensional Man, 39