Subordinating social values to economic value is capitalism’s fundamental logic
Evidence
For De Angelis (2007, 37–42), the disciplining of social values under economic value is capitalism’s fundamental logic, but one that takes particular historical forms. — Max Haiven, Cultures of Financialization, 346
Categorization
- DEFINE: “Disciplining of social values under economic value” is a precise definitional formulation the reader wants for the financialization argument.
- XREF: connects to: Capitalism depends on moral capital from the very traditions it displaced — Angus Burgin, The Great Persuasion: Reinventing Free…, 529; Capitalist social failures are actually successes for capital’s own logic — Clara E. Mattei, Escape from Capitalism, 381; Capitalism subordinates social values to economic value via a rogue value paradigm — Max Haiven, Cultures of Financialization, 561 (+6 more)
Broader Connections
- Capitalism subordinates social values to economic value via a rogue value paradigm
#corroborates(0.95) — Max Haiven, Cultures of Financialization, 561 - Capitalism and materialism shape a society’s entire worldview and value system
#expands(0.85) - Culture is not superstructural but is where financialized capitalism subjugates social values
#corroborates(0.85) — Max Haiven, Cultures of Financialization, 563 - Capitalism reproduces itself by drawing civil and cultural life into conformity with its needs
#expands(0.80) - Under real subsumption, social life itself becomes object of capitalist speculation
#expands(0.80) — Max Haiven, Cultures of Financialization, 457 - Capitalism shapes selfhood, ecology, and institutions well beyond economics
#expands(0.80) — Wael Hallaq, Restating Orientalism, 69