Worker demands arise from outside capital’s own logic.

Evidence

The first is that demands that put a state of affairs into question do not grow spontaneously out of the logic of the latter, but consist in a break with it. A demand for higher wages does not derive from the logic of capitalist relations, but interrupts that logic in terms that are alien to it – those of a discourse concerning justice, for example. So any demand presupposes a constitutive heterogeneity – it is an event that breaks with the logic of a situation. This is what makes such a demand a political one. — Ernesto Laclau, On Populist Reason, 455

Categorization

• recurring: this claim recurs 2 times within its source
• XREF: connects to: Cooperatives redirected surplus from capital owners to the workers themselves; Workers’ self-governance sought to abolish the wage relationship and production for profit — Clara E. Mattei, Escape from Capitalism: An Intervention, 186; Worker-run factories across Brazil and Argentina refute the necessity of private capital — Clara E. Mattei, Escape from Capitalism: An Intervention, 401 (+2 more)

Broader Connections

• Postwar workers demanded meaning and agency in production. #exemplifies (0.85)
• Worker-run factories across Brazil and Argentina refute the necessity of private capital #exemplifies (0.80) — Clara E. Mattei, Escape from Capitalism, 401
• Workers’ self-governance sought to abolish the wage relationship and production for profit #exemplifies (0.78) — Clara E. Mattei, Escape from Capitalism, 186
• Cooperatives redirected surplus from capital owners to the workers themselves #exemplifies (0.75)