The accumulation of men and of capital are inseparable processes.

Evidence

If the economic take-off of the West began with the techniques that made possible the accumulation of capital, it might perhaps be said that the methods for administering the accumulation of men made possible a political take-off in relation to the traditional, ritual, costly, violent forms of power, which soon fell into disuse and were superseded by a subtle, calculated technology of subjection. In fact, the two processes – the accumulation of men and the accumulation of capital – cannot be separated; it would not have been possible to solve the problem of the accumulation of men without the growth of an apparatus of production capable of both sustaining them and using them; conversely, the techniques that made the cumulative multiplicity of men useful accelerated the accumulation of capital. — Michel Foucault, Discipline & Punish- The Birth of the…, 345

Categorization

• XREF: Pairs with the reader’s interest in causal mechanisms: disciplinary population management and capitalist accumulation co-produce each other. — connects to: Conquest of power and new productive arrangements are inseparable; Capital is a hyper-abstract structure that still depends wholly on human cooperation.

Related

• Conquest of power and new productive arrangements are inseparable (similarity 0.92)