We’re not dealing with the cleverest people, here.
If you continue to think they are stupid, you will never understand how power really works in capitalist states.
https://www.thenation.com/article/culture/soren-mau-marx-mute-compulsion/
In the end, capitalists participate in the same totality as the rest of us, and they are often just as subject to the “tyranny of necessity” as the lower orders whose labor they command. In [Søren] Mau’s terms, the class domination we see in capitalism is “impersonal,” since it isn’t this or that particular capitalist who ultimately dominates workers but rather capital itself. This is why it is so necessary to understand capitalism as an alien totality, rather than condemn it through pointing to notably bad capitalists.
