[lbo-talk] Agency and Capitalism

Eric Beck ersatzdog at gmail.com
Fri Dec 31 06:44:54 PST 2010


On Fri, Dec 31, 2010 at 8:09 AM, Carrol Cox <cbcox at ilstu.edu> wrote:


> And notice: agency has disappeared. As long as people keep looking for the
> Villain in the drama they will be unable to understand  capitalism

Agency here seems almost like an ad hominem, invoked so that it can be easily dismissed, as it is obviously compatible with liberal notions about individuality, self-determination, decision-making, etc. But what's really being discussed, the relevant "opposition," is subjectivity/subjection/subjectivation, which both erase liberal tenets about will and show how workers' working works for capitalism. Unlike agency, subjectivity doesn't disappear.



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