made me think of this line from Dark Marxism blog:

Capital in a scientific, not a metaphorical sense, is a control system. And it is capital, as a control system, that ultimately creates and maintains the abstraction we call exchange-value. Capital is the abstractor.

taken from this post: https://ianwrightsite.wordpress.com/2020/09/03/marx-on-capital-as-a-real-god-2/