Neoliberal and anti-humanist determinists concur that capital’s triumph is historically inevitable.
Evidence
As I will never tire of insisting, the most Gothic description of capital is also the most literal. Capital is an abstract parasite, an insatiable vampire and zombie-maker; but the living flesh it converts into dead labour is ours, and the zombies it makes are us. Determinists of both a neoliberal and anti-humanist bent (believe it or not, it is not unheard of for such positions to coincide within the same person, proving that Marx wasn’t wrong about the essentially contradictory nature of capitalist ideology) merely echo teleo-Marxism at its most eschatological when they insist that what the meat (or human) components of the capital machine are of no consequence since the total triumph of capital is historically inevitable. — Mark Fisher (edited by Darren Ambrose), K-Punk, 1418
Categorization
- XREF: connects to: Sharpened contradictions historically favor capital and the Right, not the Left.; Holding history against human essence yields a categorical demand for total revolution over reform — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 421
Broader Connections
- Sharpened contradictions historically favor capital and the Right, not the Left.
#corroborates(0.90) - Holding history against human essence yields a categorical demand for total revolution over reform
#expands(0.80) — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 421