Marx explained modes of production evolving and dissolving through their own contradictions.

Evidence

Indeed, Marx saw each mode of production as driven to develop, through its higher stages, precisely by the “overcoming” of the contradictions intrinsic to its lower stages; reproducing these antagonisms on a more advanced level; and hence destined to disappear through this development of contradictions. This analysis, worked out at the level of economic forms and processes, constituted the subject matter of Capital . — Hall, Stuart, Essential Essays, Volume 1, 881

Categorization

• XREF: Could connect to readings of Marx’s account of capitalism’s internal contradictions.