Capital Hates Everyone, Lazzarato

Review and notes on Capital Hates Everyone: Fascism or Revolution by Maurizio Lazzarato.

Introduction: Apocalyptic Times

• These times manifest and reveal.
• The alternative fascism or revolution is asymmetrical, off-balance.
• The neoliberal position is founded on violence. One needs not only to think about the violence that preserves, but the violence that creates.
• Fascisms are always reactivating the relationship between war and governmentality.
• One always finds class hatred and strategic violence underneath the facade of progress.
• Leninist model of revolution - realization. The ideal passage must be realized through power seizure.
• Recent revolutionary processes: exist ‘unforseen’; do not embody history’s necessity.
• The relationsihp between production and circulation has been reversed. The revolutionaries attack not the factories but block the roads.
• Left populism - the signifier of authority, the empty signifier of ‘the people’ - cannot be revolutionary.
• Social revolution which detaches from political revolution can easily fall prey to incorporation.

1. When Capital Goes to War

• Elecion of Bolsonaro in Brazil: radicalization of neo-fascism, racism, sexism.
• The neoliberal birth occupied brutal positions in South America.
• The contemporary analytical tradition ignores the violent genealogy of neoliberalism. The problem is not moral but theoretical: Foucaultian concepts presuppose that the subjectivity of the ogverned can be constructed only on the conclusion of defeat.
• Neoliberalism parts from laissez-faire capitalism with constant intervention and incentivization.
• Benjamin - capital is both production of war, power of creation and destruction.
• Neoliberalism finds roots in fascism.

The Financialization of the Poor

• Capital transforms the defeated into the governed.
• The war has never ceased; contradictions within pacified relations rupture governmentality.
• There is a radical incompatibility of reofrmism with neoliberalism.
• Transformation of the poor into the indebted.
• The creditor/debtor relation cuts across social strata and shifts the terrain of class struggle.
• The Keynesian demand - redistribution of wealth by the state should be replaced by the privatization of state expenditures and social services.

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