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is a fateful force which creates its own economic subjects. It is a specific regime of rational life conduct which concentrates its internal driving forces (namely fear and promise) on economic activity.

a fateful force' that creates its own economic subjects. Capitalism, he continues, is therefore a specific regime of rational life conduct which concentrates its internal driving forces, namely fear and promise, on economic activity, which is why it is 'thoroughly determined by the capitalist logic of production (and consumption)'. . . . this force 'imposes . . . a common trajectory of development' on social relations as well as on social subjects, whether a one-Euro jobber or the head of Deutsche Bank. These are 'the principle of growth' on the one hand, and the logic of acceleration on the other'. Interlinked through the 'bicycle principle' of capital accumulation, they are subject to a culture, and structure, defining the logic of escalation, which in turn produces the social pathologies so typical of our times.' Sociology, Capitalism, Critique By Hartmut Rosa, Stephan Lessenich, Klaus Dörre

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