The trade-off of annexing social life for anti-capitalist tools is a bad deal

Evidence

More bluntly, if the price of new tools for “overthrowing capitalism” is to annex all of social life to capitalism, then the deal is a bad one. — Nick Couldry & Ulises A. Mejias, The Costs of Connection, 331

Categorization

• APHORISMS: A compressed, memorable piece of strategic wisdom about costs of means-ends reasoning.