Indeed, it is here that the alpha and the omega of capitalism meet: primitive accumulation (de Angelis 2007, 97–101; Federici 2005; Midnight Notes 1990) or “accumulation by dispossession” (Harvey 2003, ch.4) is relied upon in times of crisis to fill the vacuum left by the evaporation of fictitious capital as social programs and public assets are liquidated and privatized.

Max Haiven, Cultures of Financialization, loc. 106