Capitalism and Life

On the one hand, the time of life, and on the other, the time of capital, though this is not a dialectical opposition. Capital does not rise out of life and transcend it, but is always immanent to life. It distorts this relation by making itself appear as though it were the origin of life. Thus the businessman thinks without him there would be no life, whereas in fact it is he who is the parasite. Today we see this thinking everywhere. We cannot think of life except as the result of economic necessity. 'There is no alternative,' they say over and over again. The absence of possibilities is the end of life, for life is the possible and nothing else.