External threat and technical progress weld capitalist society into unprecedented cohesion
Evidence
No analysis in depth seems to be necessary in order to find the reasons for these developments. As to the West: the former conflicts within society are modified and arbitrated under the double (and interrelated) impact of technical progress and international communism. Class struggles are attenuated and “imperialist contradictions” suspended before the threat from without. Mobilized against this threat, capitalist society shows an internal union and cohesion unknown at previous stages of industrial civilization. It is a cohesion on very material grounds; mobilization against the enemy works as a mighty stimulus of production and employment, thus sustaining the high standard of living. — Herbert Marcuse, One-Dimensional Man, 160
Categorization
- XREF: connects to: Cold War threat produced unprecedented internal cohesion in capitalist societies — Herbert Marcuse, One-Dimensional Man: Studies in the…, 160; Capitalism’s global unification paradoxically generated nationalism as fragmentation; Competition among capitalists structurally demands constant technological change — Nick Srnicek, Platform Capitalism, 21 (+1 more)
Broader Connections
- Cold War threat produced unprecedented internal cohesion in capitalist societies
#corroborates(0.95) — Herbert Marcuse, One-Dimensional Man, 160 - Competition among capitalists structurally demands constant technological change
#expands(0.78) — Nick Srnicek, Platform Capitalism, 21 - Capitalism’s global unification paradoxically generated nationalism as fragmentation
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