It is simply that capitalism has drives that no discourse can deny … to grow, to reduce input costs, to search out new venues of profit, and to generate new markets, even as the form, practices, and venues for these drives are infinitely diverse and operate discursively. Moreover, capital itself (along with, but not reducible to the specific form of reason advancing, organizing, and generating new possibilities with it) always gives shape to human worlds — relations, arrangements, subject production — in excess of its economic operations and circulations and in excess of its aims: this is the power of its world making that Marx depicted so poetically in the Manifesto and attempted to systematize in the German Ideology.

Wendy Brown, Undoing the Demos, loc. 152