Capitalism here aims at the state in which, as Marx (Capital, vol. I, 952) put it, "All the means of labour . . . now also serve as ingredients in the valorization process. Where they are not converted into actual money, they are converted into accounting money." We are arguing, however, that the "means of labour" include both labor itself, with its means of reproduction, and the expanding conditions, or factors, of production.

Nick Couldry & Ulises A. Mejias, The Costs of Connection, loc. 743