Liberated capitalist subjects may use their freedom to dismantle capitalism itself

Evidence

Much as they wanted to break with capitalist society, those who escaped from it sometimes carried its influences within themselves, like ineradicable contagions. … But because some of the members made so much more than the others, they agreed to a compromise: each person would contribute half, not all, of their earnings to the house fund. Even so, Weiss writes that any conversations about money were marked by “defensiveness, self-righteousness, inexperience with money sharing, and the fear of having to relinquish one’s most cherished comforts and pleasures for the sake of group amity.” In his commune, the first “money crisis” ends up not being a shortage, but hurt feelings when one of the wealthier members comes home with a sixty-dollar coat. — Jenny Odell, How to Do Nothing, 163 (#complicates, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Bourgeois institutions objectively embodied the idea of their own abolition — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 2365; Under postindustrial capitalism, increased freedom and abundance produce more sophisticated social control — Fredric Jameson, Marxism and Form, 216; Critical Theory’s freedom consists in accepting bourgeois ideals in their distorted or manipulated forms. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 2341 (+7 more)

Broader Connections

• Escaping capitalism does not remove capitalism’s influence from within people #complicates (0.78) — Jenny Odell, How to Do Nothing, 163