Oppositional workers’ organizations mirror capitalist structure and thereby absorb class struggle

Evidence

In an age of the real subsumption of community by capital, says Jacques Camatte, “capital had to absorb the movement that negates it, the proletariat, and establish a unity in which the proletariat is merely an object of capital… . It follows that all forms of working-class political organizations have disappeared.” Camatte is lamenting forms of social organization that cannot be truly considered unities of workers—organizations that take the form of a “racket” or “gang,” which rely on hierarchies and financial investments, “firms” that follow a corporate structure and may appear to oppose “legitimate” forms of capitalist organization but nonetheless mirror capitalism rather than oppose it. If the proletariat is supposed to be that which negates capital, the racket and the gang absorb the proletariat, rendering class struggle impossible. — Grant Bollmer, Katherine Guinness, The Influencer Factory, 393

Categorization

Category: Causal Relationships

• XREF: Directly relevant to the reader’s labor theory of value question — what exactly is the commodity realized by the influencer-as-firm.
• QUESTION: Worth chasing: does the racket/gang argument apply to creator unions or co-ops that try to resist influencer capital?

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• Worker organizations mimicking corporate structure neutralize rather than challenge capital (similarity 0.95)
• Organizations opposing capital get engulfed and become capital’s modes (similarity 0.89)
• Influencer unions fail by missing that top influencers are capitalists, not workers (similarity 0.81)