Marx’s prediction holds if judged on the Grundrisse’s long timescale

Evidence

This is the essential realism of Marx’s view, which the word inevitability somehow misrepresents in other ways and in which the strong or full form of what Marx meant by “contradiction” can be observed and examined. It is always worth adding that Marx was not wrong about this diagnosis, particularly if we take the long temporal perspective of the Grundrisse in place of the foreshortened apocalyptic prophecies of Capital itself. — Fredric Jameson, Postmodernism, or, The Cultural Logic…, 466

Categorization

• XREF: Relevant to testing whether Jameson’s ‘cultural dominant’ is falsifiable — this passage models a long-timescale test of a totalizing thesis.