Every mode of production rests on exploitation and antagonism.

Evidence

Modes of production—however complex, developed, and productive they become—are therefore founded on a root antagonistic contradiction. But this contradiction, the social forms in which it is institutionalized, the theoretical laws which “explain” it, and the forms of “consciousness” in which the antagonism is lived and experienced, is worked out in, again, definite and historically specific ways. — Hall, Stuart, Essential Essays, Volume 1, 881

Categorization

• XREF: Links to the reader’s prior material on how contradiction drives social transformation. — connects to: Under immaterial production everyone owns the means of production, ending class antagonism — Byung-Chul Han, Psychopolitics: Neoliberalism and New…, 24