Pure economics redefined capital as deserved savings, not a social relation.

Evidence

While Gramsci and the revolutionary workers used lived economic knowledge to expose the reality of capitalism as a system based on exploitation, the pure economists defended models that depicted a reality in which capital, not labor, was the engine of the economic machine. Capital was understood not as a social relationship but as a commodity generated by the savings of those who deserved to be at the top of the pyramid. — Clara E. Mattei, Escape from Capitalism, 221

Categorization

• XREF: Directly supports the reader’s central theme: the ‘invisible order’ where distributional hierarchy appears as natural desert. — connects to: Capital relates to society as sorcery and challenge, not contract. — Jean Baudrillard, Simulacra and Simulation, 59