Capitalism’s permanent contradiction enables endless mutation instead of revolution

Evidence

But counter to what Marx assumed, communist revolution cannot resolve the contradiction between forces of production and relations of production. The contradiction admits no dialectical Aufhebung. Capitalism can always escape into the future precisely because it harbours permanent and inherent contradiction. Accordingly, industrial capitalism has now mutated into neoliberalism and financial capitalism, which are implementing a post-industrial, immaterial mode of production – instead of turning into communism. — Byung-Chul Han, Psychopolitics, 21

Categorization

• XREF: Parallels the Frankfurt School material where capitalism’s escape into future was framed against Marx’s predicted collapse; also connects to my readings in Marxist theory on why contradiction doesn’t self-resolve. — connects to: Capitalism may resolve its internal contradictions by making them tolerable rather than ending them — Herbert Marcuse, One-Dimensional Man: Studies in the…, 161; Sustained capitalist mutation requires new institutional forms, not merely destruction — Shoshana Zuboff, The Age of Surveillance Capitalism, 156; The double movement can convert even robber-baron capitalism into genuine institutional mutation — Shoshana Zuboff, The Age of Surveillance Capitalism, 158 (+3 more)

Related

• Capitalism may resolve its internal contradictions by making them tolerable rather than ending them (similarity 0.84)
• The double movement can convert even robber-baron capitalism into genuine institutional mutation (similarity 0.82)
• Sustained capitalist mutation requires new institutional forms, not merely destruction (similarity 0.82)
• Capitalism’s resilience comes from its plasticity in adopting new social forms (similarity 0.81)
• Capitalism periodically renews itself through new organizational forms rather than fixed ones (similarity 0.81)
• Capitalism transforms itself as a survival strategy yet can undergo epoch-changing change (similarity 0.80)
• Full subsumption by capital will not collapse capitalism through internal contradictions (similarity 0.79)
• Marx explained modes of production evolving and dissolving through their own contradictions. (similarity 0.78)
• Pre-capitalist economies resisted change while capitalism makes change constitutive (similarity 0.78)
• Capitalist realism falls only to internal inconsistency, not moral critique (similarity 0.78)
• Capital can flourish even after capitalism itself dies. (similarity 0.78)
• Contradictions in industrial society do not resolve themselves automatically (similarity 0.78)
• Capitalism is an infinitely plastic entity metabolizing all prior codes and social systems (similarity 0.78)

Broader Connections

• Sustained capitalist mutation requires new institutional forms, not merely destruction #complicates (0.85) — Shoshana Zuboff, The Age of Surveillance Capitalism, 156
• Capitalism periodically renews itself through new organizational forms rather than fixed ones #expands (0.85) — Shoshana Zuboff, The Age of Surveillance Capitalism, 1647
• The double movement can convert even robber-baron capitalism into genuine institutional mutation #expands (0.80) — Shoshana Zuboff, The Age of Surveillance Capitalism, 158
• Revolutionary conjunctures arise from accumulated overdetermined contradictions, not the economy alone #corroborates (0.72) — Hall, Stuart, Essential Essays, Volume 1, 534