Effective political programs only address problems their era can already solve

Evidence

Marx’s notion of change is not in that sense a completely immanent one: even if they have no “ideal,” the communards have a program, and their consciousness of it reflects the limits imposed on them by the very situation the program is designed to change: “mankind always raises only those problems which it is already in a position to solve.” — Fredric Jameson, Postmodernism, or, The Cultural Logic…, 467

Categorization

• XREF: The ‘only solvable problems get raised’ claim parallels the reader’s attempt to map their own position within the world system — a situated, historically-limited cognition.
• DEFINE: This clarifies what ‘immanent’ means in the Marxist dialectical sense — the opposite of free-floating ideals.