Failed succession between economic orders invites institutional vacuum and catastrophe

Evidence

Only socialization, a planned and correctly timed transition to socialist conditions, can protect us from a situation in which the one institution (capitalist enterprise) is at an end and the other (socialist enterprise) not yet installed. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 29

Categorization

• DEEPTHINKING: The interregnum thesis—capitalism dying before socialism is installed—is a dense, transferable framework about institutional transitions generally, not just 1919 Germany.
• ADDENDUM: Relates to the sacrifice/grafting essays’ shared theme of transitional instability, though the clearest link is a general one: institutions hollowing out before replacement.
• XREF: connects to: Weimar’s compromise order collapsed once economic crisis intervened — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 928; Failed transitions of power end in class extermination or mutual ruin.; Failed states will revert to concessionary economics bypassing national governance — Rob Nixon, Slow Violence and the Environmentalism…, 334

Broader Connections

• Failed transitions of power end in class extermination or mutual ruin. #exemplifies (0.82)