Workers’ latent community hunger gets wasted by privatism.

Evidence

Most Buffaloes’ ambivalent craving for community — for contact with a world that might be wider than their separate, individual friends — was a precious emotional, political resource, lost to the common good. — Nina Eliasoph, Avoiding politics, 938

Categorization

• XREF: Directly supports reader’s premise that the desire for solidarity exists and is squandered, a positive-affective resource rather than enemy-driven motive. — connects to: Depoliticized periods follow economic rhythms the way hunger follows the business cycle — Fredric Jameson, Postmodernism, or, The Cultural Logic…, 714; Defunding public services structurally forces wage-dependence and demobilizes workers — Clara E. Mattei, Escape from Capitalism: An Intervention, 145; Workers’ self-governance sought to abolish the wage relationship and production for profit — Clara E. Mattei, Escape from Capitalism: An Intervention, 186 (+6 more)

Broader Connections

• Privatizing state services produces bifurcated access to social goods #expands (0.80) — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race, 1742
• Defunding public services structurally forces wage-dependence and demobilizes workers #expands (0.78) — Clara E. Mattei, Escape from Capitalism, 145
• Welfare functions as social control by giving workers something to lose #expands (0.78) — Clara E. Mattei, The Capital Order, 1661
• Depoliticized periods follow economic rhythms the way hunger follows the business cycle #expands (0.75) — Fredric Jameson, Postmodernism, or, The Cultural Logic…, 714
• Capitalism perpetually seeks new privatization frontiers like water and seeds #expands (0.75) — Clara E. Mattei, Escape from Capitalism, 81
• Economic dependence on wage labor hollows out political citizenship. #expands (0.74) — Clara E. Mattei, Escape from Capitalism, 406
• Workers’ self-governance sought to abolish the wage relationship and production for profit #responds-to (0.72) — Clara E. Mattei, Escape from Capitalism, 186