Marx’s predicted universalizing class never arrived to resolve global contradictions.

Evidence

While the Left opposes an order animated by profit instead of the thriving of the earth and its inhabitants, it is not clear today how such thriving could be obtained and organized. Capitalist globalization, which Marx imagined would yield a class that would universalize itself by inverting its denigration into shared power and freedom, has yielded instead paralyzing conundrums: What alternative planetary economic and political order(s) could foster freedom, equality, community, and earthly sustainability and also avoid domination by massive administrative apparatuses, complex markets, and the historically powerful peoples and parts of the globe? — Wendy Brown, Undoing the Demos, 434

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to the reader’s Marxist critique engagement; the failure of the predicted revolutionary subject to materialize is a recurring theme in that literature. — connects to: Marx held contradictory world-historical and national views of bourgeois development; Marxist theory itself is a product of historical contradictions and will disappear with them — Antonio Gramsci, Selections from the Prison Notebooks, 1439

Broader Connections

• Marx held contradictory world-historical and national views of bourgeois development #complicates (0.72)
• Marxist theory itself is a product of historical contradictions and will disappear with them #corroborates (0.72) — Antonio Gramsci, Selections from the Prison Notebooks, 1439