This has been bothering me all day and I cannot remember the word. I thought Marx discussed it, but I can’t find it. I think it’s a fallacy.

It’s where you try to oppose a system, but because your efforts are restricted to the system itself you only end up reinforcing it. Like how a mold can be the exact opposite of what it creates, but both can recreate each other. Or like walking a path in the opposite direction in an attempt to destroy the ruts.

Edit: Something like: Legitimizing through opposition.

Edit 2: Not recuperation. It’s something passive which happens unintentionally.

Edit 3: I think it was a type of dialectic? Or perhaps it makes something dialectic.