Even a fully nationalized economy requires revolutionary, not gradual, change for liberation.

Evidence

This is the half-truth in the Soviet-Marxist thesis that the prevailing contradictions between the “lagging production relations and the character of the productive forces” can be resolved without explosion, and that “conformity” between the two factors can occur through “gradual change.” The other half of the truth is that quantitative change would still have to turn into qualitative change, into the disappearance of the State, the Party, the Plan, etc. as independent powers superimposed on the individuals. Inasmuch as this change would leave the material base of society (the nationalized productive process) intact, it would be confined to a political revolution. If it could lead to self-determination at the very base of human existence, namely in the dimension of necessary labor, it would be the most radical and most complete revolution in history. — Herbert Marcuse, One-Dimensional Man, 217

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Successful revolutions ground themselves in inherited national territory — Benedict Anderson, Imagined Communities: Reflections on…, 31

Broader Connections

• Successful revolutions ground themselves in inherited national territory #corroborates (0.75) — Benedict Anderson, Imagined Communities, 31