Capitalism can preserve ‘irrational’ features like unfree labor rather than abolish them

Evidence

In the context of the “classical” line of capitalist development, a capitalism which preserves rather than abolishes such “irrational” features must be, to say the least, a “deviant” case. — Hall, Stuart, Essential Essays, Volume 1, 590

Categorization

• XREF: Challenges the Whiggish assumption that capitalism inevitably dissolves pre-capitalist social ties — connects to Marx’s own writings on primitive accumulation and to contemporary debates on racial capitalism. — connects to: Regulation theory explains how unstable capitalism achieves temporary coherence. — David Harvey, The Condition of Postmodernity: An…, 732; Capitalism must preserve labor as profit source despite its potential abolition — Herbert Marcuse, One-Dimensional Man: Studies in the…, 240; Late capitalism’s irrationality thwarts the rational systematic theory Marx could achieve — Dirk Braunstein, Adorno’s Critique of Political Economy, 903 (+4 more)