Societies only undertake tasks whose material conditions are maturing

Evidence

We can’t be materialists in that way any longer. But I do think that we are still required to think about the way in which ideological/cultural/discursive practices continue to exist within the determining lines of force of material relations, and the expropriation of nature, which is a very different question. Material conditions are the necessary but not sufficient condition of all historical practice. Of course, we need to think material conditions in their determinate discursive form, not as a fixed absolute. I think the discursive position is often in danger of losing its reference to material practice and historical conditions. — Hall, Stuart, Essential Essays, Volume 1, 747 (#qualifies, via linked claim)

Categorization

• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim
• XREF: connects to: Social orders collapse only after their productive forces are exhausted — Antonio Gramsci, Selections from the Prison Notebooks, 2039; Societies only rise or fall when material conditions make it possible; Social orders only die after their productive forces have fully developed (+5 more)

Related

• Societies only rise or fall when material conditions make it possible (similarity 0.89)
• Societies only pose problems they can solve, and orders die only when superseded. (similarity 0.86)
• Social orders collapse only after their productive forces are exhausted (similarity 0.85)
• Material conditions are necessary but not sufficient for all historical practice. (similarity 0.85)
• Material conditions condition but never fully determine historical practice. (similarity 0.84)
• Historical change arrives only when material conditions are already ripe (similarity 0.81)
• A social order persists until new productive relations mature within it (similarity 0.81)
• Social orders only die after their productive forces have fully developed (similarity 0.80)
• Material production remains indispensable even where services dominate employment (similarity 0.78)

Broader Connections

• Societies only rise or fall when material conditions make it possible #corroborates (0.95)
• Social orders only die after their productive forces have fully developed #corroborates (0.85)
• Material conditions are necessary but not sufficient for all historical practice. #qualifies (0.85) — Hall, Stuart, Essential Essays, Volume 1, 747
• Working-class culture emerges from its material conditions combined with class struggle #expands (0.75)