What does it mean to sell ones labour power? What is new about this momentous event?
Sade, sado-masochistic, mould ourselves to desire of the other, our desire is desire of the other.
Our desire for capitalism is structured into our very desire, stemming from the way in which our subjectivity is structured with a deep structure of capital as background.
Look at Zizek’s criticism of Laclau, he pays something like a background, a structure of capital has to be in place in order for one to be able to speak about multiple identities.
Ellen Wood would remark all these identities could in theory be accommodated except one that is the communist identity. I”m not arguing this, but I am saying that one condition of existence for objectifying the other, for a relation to the other as competitor etc. are because of various fantasmatic logics and identity constructs put in place by deep structures of capital.
Proof of this is others that can’t be accommodated by liberal mult-culturalism political correctness
– terrorist
– slum dweller Homer Sacer
– software Geek
Capitalism deep structures install a particular neurotic subject – self-possessive individual subject –>pathology installed at moment required to sell labour power.
In order to overcome this fundamental selfishness liberal multiculturalism develops renewed sense of being towards the Other which flourishes in the superstructure until it bumps up against the Real of capital and it then coughs back up the identity it can not accommodate — terrorist, Homer Sacer, geek radical, free software, copy-left.
Descartes – Hegel- Lacan/Foucault [Laclau, Zizek, Butler]