Market discourse masks one group imposing its interests on everyone else
Evidence
According to them, the future is the application of new technology within the discipline of the market. But the market doesn’t tell us what to do: people tell us what to do. The “market” is essentially a ploy by which one group of people’s interests are imposed on the rest of us. — Mark Fisher (edited by Darren Ambrose), K-Punk, 2081
Categorization
- DEFINE: A clean demystification of ‘the market’ as reification / rhetorical cover for concrete interests.
- XREF: connects to: Market ideology fragments classes into individual consumers and hides production; Market discourse displaces the Marxian model by shifting from production to circulation; Neoliberals preach market supremacy while exempting themselves from its rule — Philip Mirowski, Never Let a Serious Crisis Go to Waste, 281 (+4 more)
Broader Connections
- Market discourse displaces the Marxian model by shifting from production to circulation
#expands(0.88) - Market ideology fragments classes into individual consumers and hides production
#expands(0.82) - Financialization establishes ideological dominance of individual profit over collective interests
#corroborates(0.79) — Aris Komporozos-Athanasiou, Speculative Communities, 109 - Neoliberals preach market supremacy while exempting themselves from its rule
#exemplifies(0.78) — Philip Mirowski, Never Let a Serious Crisis Go to Waste, 281 - Market rule, technocratic insulation, and claims of economic objectivity reinforce each other
#corroborates(0.77) — Clara E. Mattei, The Capital Order, 650 - Civility discourse smuggles in exclusion of those deemed different
#corroborates(0.76) — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race, 208