A crisis-free state capitalism would trap humanity in permanent hopelessness

Evidence

These were directed principally at two points. First, state capitalism, as Pollock conceived of it, might represent the millennium and would thus condemn humanity to complete hopelessness. This was a strategic objection, which only became significant for the question of the accuracy of Pollock’s analysis once it had been demonstrated that the conception was blind to contradictions within the social formations it analysedcontradictions which endangered the system. Neumann’s efforts in Behemoth to expose the concept of state capitalism as a contradiction in terms ran in the same direction, since they aimed to demonstrate that a crisis-free form of capitalism was inconceivable. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 1171

Categorization

• XREF: Neumann’s worry that crisis-free capitalism means permanent doom parallels the Marxist debate in Against Postmodernism over whether capitalism must collapse into either communism or barbarism. — connects to: A materialist utopian philosophy must reckon with death and sacrifice to survive. — Fredric Jameson, Marxism and Form, 262; A rotting social system can still sustain humanity’s existence at a cost of suffering — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 473; Inflationary crises endanger capitalism by exposing its unjust distribution of goods. — Clara E. Mattei, Escape from Capitalism: An Intervention, 277 (+2 more)

Broader Connections

• State intervention made capitalist exploitation political and thereby threatened capitalism itself #complicates (0.75) — Clara E. Mattei, Escape from Capitalism, 173
• Inflationary crises endanger capitalism by exposing its unjust distribution of goods. #qualifies (0.72) — Clara E. Mattei, Escape from Capitalism, 277
• Failure to move from extensive to intensive industrialization doomed state socialism #qualifies (0.70) — Aijaz Ahmad, In Theory, 45