Habermas overstates late capitalism’s success in overcoming Marxian contradictions

Evidence

At a second and more concrete level, Habermas’s consensual conception of the social leads him to exaggerate the extent to which late capitalism has overcome the kind of economic contradictions analysed by Marx in Capital. — Alex Callinicos, Against Postmodernism, 444

Categorization

• XREF: Directly parallels the reader’s core project: Jameson’s own exaggeration of postmodernism’s break from modernism rests on a similar consensual framing that this Marxist critique is designed to dismantle. — connects to: Late capitalism’s irrationality thwarts the rational systematic theory Marx could achieve — Dirk Braunstein, Adorno’s Critique of Political Economy, 903; Late-capitalist crises are displaced from economy onto culture as legitimation gaps — Alex Callinicos, Against Postmodernism: A Marxist…, 403; Postindustrial capitalism actually confirms rather than refutes Marx’s analysis — Fredric Jameson, Postmodernism, or, The Cultural Logic…, 128 (+3 more)
• SEED: Essay angle: tracing how the consensual-model error recurs from Habermas through Jameson and into late-capitalism triumphalism.

Broader Connections

• Postindustrial capitalism actually confirms rather than refutes Marx’s analysis #corroborates (0.80) — Fredric Jameson, Postmodernism, or, The Cultural Logic…, 128
• Habermas over-weighted Weber and under-weighted Marx in diagnosing modernity #expands (0.80) — Alex Callinicos, Against Postmodernism, 458
• Late capitalism’s irrationality thwarts the rational systematic theory Marx could achieve #corroborates (0.75) — Dirk Braunstein, Adorno’s Critique of Political Economy, 903
• Late-capitalist crises are displaced from economy onto culture as legitimation gaps #corroborates (0.70) — Alex Callinicos, Against Postmodernism, 403
• Marxist theory itself is a product of historical contradictions and will disappear with them #expands (0.70) — Antonio Gramsci, Selections from the Prison Notebooks, 1439