State intervention and science-as-productive-force define advanced capitalism.
Evidence
In Habermas’s eyes, two tendencies were decisive for advanced capitalism: the growth of interventionist activity by the state in order to shore up a social system which tended to correspond less and less to the ideology of free and fair exchange, and which was plagued with crises; and the development of science and technology to become the primary productive force. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 676
Categorization
- DEFINE: The two structural tendencies Habermas identifies are the load-bearing concepts of his late-capitalism analysis.
- XREF: connects to: Hilferding defined organized capitalism as state-steered planned production