Activity

crucially ex ante, in the form of the monetary advance (‘at the start’), namely, as a stock of money-capital, and not as an ex post remuneration for labour-power

with the hope of crossing the critical threshold of the process of accumulation by self-sustaining valorisation

Subjectivist-individualist thought, built around the idea of free will as sovereign self-control, predictably rejects this verdict of radical heteronomy in toto and to its last breath.

all the aporiae of the subjectivist metaphysics that feed contemporary individualistic thinking

Capitalism inherited this layering of markets that evolved over the long term. But it could only truly take form by closing off the last avenues of independent individual or (small-scale) collective production, thus raising material heteronomy to an unprecedented level.