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is a class system distinguished by the appropriation of unpaid surplus labor from the direct producers.

For Marx, capitalism is quintessentially a class system distinguished bythe specific economic form in which unpaid surplus labor is appropriatedfrom the direct producers. T

is a complex organic system which one cannot write down in some glorious synthesis, rather one has to grope one's way.

As Robert Solow, the MIT Nobel laureate said in 1991, 'There is not some glorious theoretical synthesis of capitalism that you can write down in a book and follow. You have to grope your way' (In Marcus 1995:98)

is a deterritorialization, i.e. a form of decoding. It is all about undoing and deconstructing everything. So the only rule we have left is the rule of the individual.

According to Deleuze, capitalism is a deterritorialization, i.e. a form of decoding. It is all about undoing and deconstructing everything. So the only rule we have left is the rule of the individual. But each to his own taste means that there is no . . .

is a dystopian socialist fantasy, in exactly the same but reversed way that communism was for marx a capitalist fantasy.

For i ek, capitalism is a dystopian socialist fantasy, in exactly the same but reversed way that communism was for Marx a capitalist fantasy, as he pointed out.

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

is a form of madness, and as a way beyond the madness of capitalism, he proposes intensifying the madness, continuing the process of deterritorialization, intensifying the proliferation of aleatory flows of desire, until every order and organization is simply overwhelmed and implodes: Schizoid desire, pure autopoesis.

In its voracious deterritorializing, observes Deleuze, capitalism is a form of madness, and as a way beyond the madness of capitalism, he proposes intensifying the madness, continuing the process of deterritorialization, intensifying the proliferation of aleatory flows of desire, until every order and organization is simply overwhelmed and implodes: schizoid desire, pure autopoesis.19

is a form of religion, serving to allay the same anxieties, torments, and disturbances to which the so-called religions offered answers. It is distinguished in that it is a blaming rather than a repenting cult.

A religion may be discerned in capitalism that is to say, capitalism serves essentially to allay the same anxieties, torments, and disturbances to which the so-called religions offered answers.

is a form of society whose fundamental evil is the alienation of man.

The alienation of man thus appeared as the fundamental evil of capitalist society. Karl Marx

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