The Enchantments of Mammon: How Capitalism Became the Religion of Modernity

by Eugene McCarraher

The atrophy of this ideal stemmed, in part, from Marx’s contention that machinery’s use-value for producing goods would remain after the revolutionary supersession of capital—a use-value that he himself demonstrated lay in the systematic subordination of workers. Here Marx regressed into liberal, technocratic bromides about the “neutrality” of technology;