Any proposed social solution operates inside modernity’s inherent contradictions

Evidence

A series of problems requires to be examined under the general and somewhat conventional heading “Americanism and Fordism”. But first of all one should take account of the basic fact that solutions to these problems must necessarily be put forward within the contradictory conditions of modern society, which create complications, absurd positions, and moral and economic crises often tending towards catastrophe. — Antonio Gramsci, Selections from the Prison Notebooks, 1030

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Said’s anomaly claim would collapse if the problem were generalized to modernity; Modernity frames itself as morality to make its contradictions bearable and justifiable — Wael Hallaq, Restating Orientalism: A Critique of…, 461; Ordoliberalism’s internal contradictions combined economic modernity with antimodern social ideas — Philip Mirowski & Dieter Plehwe (eds.), The Road from Mont Pèlerin: The Making…, 506 (+2 more)
• yield-rescued: below the book’s yield-target cutoff, included anyway for connecting to: Said’s anomaly claim would collapse if the problem were generalized to modernity; Modernity frames itself as morality to make its contradictions bearable and justifiable — Wael Hallaq, Restating Orientalism: A Critique of…, 461; Ordoliberalism’s internal contradictions combined economic modernity with antimodern social ideas — Philip Mirowski & Dieter Plehwe (eds.), The Road from Mont Pèlerin: The Making…, 506 (+2 more)