Post-Fordist workers are liberated from factory bondage but lost in a desert

Evidence

There is no longer an identifiable external enemy. The consequence is, Marazzi argues, that post-Fordist workers are like the Old Testament Jews after they left the ‘house of slavery’: liberated from a bondage to which they have no wish to return but also abandoned, stranded in the desert, confused about the way forward. — Mark Fisher, Capitalist Realism, 74

Categorization

• XREF: Recalls the Exodus-imagery framing that surfaces repeatedly in arguments about post-labor capitalism (cf. contemporary ‘fully automated luxury communism’ debates). — connects to: Capital co-opted workers’ own desire for liberation from Fordist routine — Mark Fisher, Capitalist Realism: Is There No…, 74; Capitalism co-opted workers’ own desire for emancipation from the Fordist factory

Related

• Capital co-opted workers’ own desire for liberation from Fordist routine (similarity 0.80)
• Capital absorbed workers’ own desire to escape Fordist routine, trapping the left (similarity 0.79)

Broader Connections

• Capital co-opted workers’ own desire for liberation from Fordist routine #qualifies (0.75) — Mark Fisher, Capitalist Realism, 74
• Capitalism co-opted workers’ own desire for emancipation from the Fordist factory #qualifies (0.75)