Opposing capital on its own moral-rational terms serves it.

Evidence

All that capital asks of us is to receive it as rational or to combat it in the name of rationality, to receive it as moral or to combat it in the name of morality. Because these are the same, which can be thought of in another way: formerly one worked to dissimulate scandal - today one works to conceal that there is none. — Jean Baudrillard, Simulacra and Simulation, 57

Categorization

• XREF: Pairs with Bourdieu’s dissimulation-of-force argument invoked just above; this is the logic that makes ‘abolishing the critique’ the only real move. — connects to: States sometimes defend interests opposed to capital’s immediate wishes — David Theo Goldberg, John Solomos, A Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies, 1667; Liberty and desire are capital’s own products, not its opposites. — Jean Baudrillard, Simulacra and Simulation, 460; Capital has been deliberately deployed to sustain racial states even against capital’s own interests (+7 more)

Broader Connections

• Moral indignation is structurally built into the system it opposes #corroborates (0.90) — Wael Hallaq, Restating Orientalism, 373
• Liberty and desire are capital’s own products, not its opposites. #corroborates (0.85) — Jean Baudrillard, Simulacra and Simulation, 460
• Capital has been deliberately deployed to sustain racial states even against capital’s own interests #complicates (0.85)
• Capital instrumentalizes Islamophobia rather than being driven by it #exemplifies (0.85)
• States sometimes defend interests opposed to capital’s immediate wishes #complicates (0.80) — David Theo Goldberg, John Solomos, A Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies, 1667
• Capital’s subsumption will not collapse on its own through internal contradictions. #corroborates (0.80) — Grant Bollmer, Katherine Guinness, The Influencer Factory, 54
• Capital and state influence each other multidirectionally, not one-way in the last instance. #complicates (0.80) — David Theo Goldberg, John Solomos, A Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies, 1671
• A secular state co-opted and thereby financed its own religious opposition #exemplifies (0.80)
• Sharpened contradictions historically favor capital and the Right, not the Left. #complicates (0.75)