Marx conceded that capitalism’s universal development empties out human content

Evidence

Marx nevertheless recognizes the force of the Romantic critique of capitalism: … In bourgeois economics — and in the epoch of production to which it corresponds - this complete working-out of the human content appears as a complete emptying out, this universal objectification as total alienation, and the tearing down of all limited, one-sided aims as sacrifice of the human end-in-itself to an entirely external end. — Alex Callinicos, Against Postmodernism, 168

Categorization

• XREF: Relevant to strategic essentialism research: universalizing development forces one-sided identity positions to be torn down as ‘limited’; bears on whether fixed identity can be held as a strategic counter-position.
• DEEPTHINKING: The double register — capitalism both realizes and empties the human end — is exactly the dialectical bind later read as the impossibility of unironic identity in postmodern critique.