capitalism manufacturing anxiety

I read, this morning, a book which was engaged in applying Kleinian psychoanalytic theory to institutions. It struck me that the author's point of view could have been quite liberatory, but for one political failing. Whereas she sees that people in institutions can develop themselves in a more mature way if they refrain from using anxious defence mechanisms of a primitive sort, she does not see that human beings could constructively get along in a society not dominated by bourgeois ideology.

The mistake she makes, in my view, is to see that a certain anxiety produced in having to get along with others is somehow an automatic part of human nature. I say, no it isn't -- rather, the anxiety is manufactured by a particular sort of society itself, which teaches us that we can only get ahead if we compete against our peers, hence the ubiquity of social anxiety which permeates relationships between peers in the workplace (and makes it hard to get along). This produces mechanisms of repression and projection, which leads to immaturity and the regression to primitive group-think.

Perhaps societies which do not promote such rugged pseudo-individualistic values would not produce such strong intra-psychic pressures, leading to this primitive regression that she outlines?