Achille Mbembe on the three drives of capitalism

Three sorts of drives have effectively impelled capitalism since its origins. The first is the constant manufacturing of races, or species (as it happens, Negroes); the second is the seeking to calculate and convert everything into exchangeable commodities (law of generalized exchange relations); and the third is the attempt to maintain a monopoly over the manufacture of the living as such.

Necropolitics (2019), p. 177