But this thoroughgoing change of perspective merely brings out all the more clearly the difficulties, if not indeed the aporias, this project of rationality encounters.
This point is all the more important as Marx speaks here of necessity and even of ineluctable necessity.
Above all, however, these various ways of representing history as a teleology presuppose the combination of two theses which are independent of one another
a fatalism by which the workers and their organizations had forged a ‘subaltern’ vision of the world for themselves
Gramsci on the 'econonism' of the Second and Third Internationals
[...] for Marx, progress is neither modernity nor liberalism nor, even less, is it capitalism. Or, rather, ‘dialectically’, it is capitalism insofar as capitalism makes socialism inevitable and, conversely, socialism insofar as socialism resolves the contradictions of capitalism.
