Progress under capitalism turns into regression and fascism

Evidence

Under existing conditions the gifts of fortune themselves become elements of misfortune. Their quantity, in default of a social subject, operated during the internal economic crises of times past as so-called “surplus production”; today, because of the enthronement of power-groups as that social subject, it produces the international threat of Fascism: progress becomes regression. That the hygienic shop-floor and everything that goes with it, the people’s car or the sportsdrome, leads to an insensitive liquidation of metaphysics, would be irrelevant; but that in the social whole they themselves become a metaphysics, an ideological curtain behind which the real evil is concentrated, is not irrelevant. — Theodor W. Adorno, Max Horkheimer, Dialectic of Enlightenment, 25

Categorization

• XREF: The ‘ideological curtain’ and the commodified sportsdrome/people’s car directly prefigure the culture industry chapter to come. — connects to: Capitalism and formal humanism lead logically to fascism — Aimé Césaire, Discourse on Colonialism, 24; Fascism emerges organically from liberalism within a single capitalist social order — Martin Jay, The Dialectical Imagination: A History…, 403; A degraded working class can turn equally to fascism or communism — Cedric J. Robinson, Black Marxism_ The Making of the Black…, 1373 (+6 more)
• SEED: The ‘hygienic shop-floor as metaphysics’ inversion — material comfort serving as ideological veil — is a strong framing device for an essay on modern wellness culture.

Broader Connections

• Capitalism and formal humanism lead logically to fascism #corroborates (0.92) — Aimé Césaire, Discourse on Colonialism, 24
• Fascism emerges organically from liberalism within a single capitalist social order #corroborates (0.88) — Martin Jay, The Dialectical Imagination, 403
• Fascism exposes bourgeois universal reason as an instrument of particular privilege #expands (0.78)
• A degraded working class can turn equally to fascism or communism #expands (0.75) — Cedric J. Robinson, Black Marxism_ The Making of the Black…, 1373