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.

  • Cowbee [he/him, comrade/them]@hexbear.netEnglish
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    18 days ago

    It’s an aspect of contradictions. Contradictions are coexistent diametrical links between two forces. They cannot exist without each other, and thus they reinforce the existence of the opposing force. Contradictions are solved when the forces struggling itself creates new relations that make the old relations obsolete. In class struggle, the bourgeoisie and proletariat cannot exist without the other, but through the socialization of production the proletariat becomes more and more equipped to run society itself, collectivizing production and ending the existence of both the bourgeoisie and proletariat.

    The process of struggle produces the new conditions which erase the basis of the contradiction, but often the struggle reinforces the existence of the other. Attack and defense form a contradiction, defense increases as attack increases, and so forth.