The movement from human desire to compelling drive can best be described by the transformation of humans into zombies. That is why zombie movies can be great forms of criticism of capitalism. The object of desire is formed as a way to experience reality, but the need to consume overrides the existence of the particular object of desire. The goal of drive is to perpetuate itself by working through the objects of desire without being satisfied. The drive therefore continues regardless of the life or death of the human individual. Capitalism can then be seen as needing zombies more than humans.

 
In the documentary "An Unreasonable Man", one thing becomes apparent. The major critics of Nader were Todd Gitlin and Eric Alterman, and both dismissed his presidential campaigns as egocentric and based on self interest. Considering the garbage that was heaped on Nader after 2000, his run in 2004 showed how nonegocentric he is. Someone with a big ego would run and hide. Gitlin and Alterman seem to project their own self interest and egos on to Nader since they find it impossible for him to run for president and not be otherwise. In other words they do not understand Nader's sense of public service. The conclusion that can be drawn is that Gitlin and Alterman, a professor and journalist who should know better, have no understanding of Nader, his history, or the history of third parties and therefore do not have full comprehension of the political situation today. Howard Zinn is in the film briefly, and even though he did not publicly support Nader in 2004 or 2000, he at least knew the importance of Nader's campaigns on an intellectual level. Gitlin and Alterman's foolishness only prove that Nader was right to run, and in the larger picture the Green Party is right in its work.

 
China's growing economy in capitalist form is not really a contradiction with its communist government. Historically, capitalism came into being during times of authoritarian governments or limited democracy where many people were dispossesed and forced to become the proletariat. For communist countries the move to capitalism is a promise for prosperity to the people in order to consolidate power, but it appears that real democracy can only develop independent of the economic form.

 
Drive is one of the main components of the capitalist discourse. It is the breaking up of the social where subjects are connected to objects instead of other subjects. There are private contracts and precluded choices instead of social relationships, with the individual formation of social relationships instead of collective formation of social relationships. It is the common structural characteristic of capitalism, applied to all within it. Drive is desire based on lack and it is channeled into small partial objects of desire as commodities. Drive is satisfied by temporary pleasure that perpetuates the system.