Abundant productive forces could blunt structural conflicts of interest.
Evidence
The vastly increased level of productive forces had made available, on the one hand, a quantity of social wealth and, on the other hand, a potential for destruction which were so great that structural conflicts of interest over them ought, in his view, to lose their edge. Against this background, what needed to be done was to discover whether there were organizations containing functioning internal critical public spheres which would be able to supervise other organizations in which such critical public spheres were absent. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 588
Categorization
- QUESTION: Whether rising productive capacity actually dissolves interest conflicts or merely changes their form is worth chasing against later Frankfurt School claims about administered society.
- XREF: connects to: Dominance is maintained through unstable equilibria that concede some subordinate interests
- yield-rescued: below the book’s yield-target cutoff, included anyway for connecting to: Dominance is maintained through unstable equilibria that concede some subordinate interests