ABSTRACT
In this article, we question the widespread belief that capitalism needs an exterior point of view in order to be effectively contested. We advance five theses about how capitalism was created by an interplay of interiority an exteriority, to shed light on its intrinsic complexity. We refer to Modernity in relationship to colonialism, how capitalism adheres to non-economic institutions existing in different time scales, how lack and scarcity are constantly created, the intertwining of apparently opposed political regimes. Finally, we point to a formal approach to understand capitalism learning to read its different types of borders.
