Socialist transformation requires consciousness of total impossibility first

Evidence

Thus, the negation exists prior to the change itself, the notion that the liberating historical forces develop within the established society is a cornerstone of Marxian theory. — Herbert Marcuse, One-Dimensional Man, 165

Categorization

• DEFINE: Defines the Marxian precondition: alienated laboring classes with a life-and-death consciousness of impossibility precede qualitative technological change.
• XREF: connects to: A robot-automated socialist future requires abandoning capital ownership of the machines. — Mark Fisher (edited by Darren Ambrose), K-Punk: The Collected and Unpublished…, 2012