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Capital Hates Everyone
Lazzarato's 2021 work — subtitled Fascism or Revolution — arguing that contemporary capitalism has abandoned any pretense of serving human flourishing, leaving societies to choose between structural response and authoritarian collapse.
Capital Hates Everyone: Fascism or Revolution (2021) is Lazzarato's most confrontational work, extending his earlier frameworks — immaterial labor, the indebted man, the distinction between social subjection and machinic enslavement — into an analysis of the political crisis produced by decades of neoliberal restructuring. The book argues that capital's extractive logic has exceeded any social contract and that the choice facing contemporary societies is not reform within existing frameworks but between structural transformation and authoritarian capture. A Goodreads reviewer, describing AI-generated creative work as technically present but experientially hollow, captured in passing the phenomenological register the book theorizes at length.
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The book responds to the accumulated evidence of the preceding two decades: rising inequality, climate catastrophe, the financialization of daily life, the capture of democratic institutions by corporate interests, and the parallel rise of authoritarian movements across countries that had seemed stably liberal-democratic. Lazzarato argues these phenomena are not accidents of