Capitalism's Fatal Flaw, and the Way Forward: Capitalism’s Fatal Flaw -- defined in a single sentence. GLOBAL STRATEGIC HYPOTHESES.

Tuesday, August 19, 2025

Capitalism’s Fatal Flaw -- defined in a single sentence. GLOBAL STRATEGIC HYPOTHESES.

Capitalism’s

Fatal Flaw --

defined in a single sentence.

GLOBAL STRATEGIC HYPOTHESES.

Dear Reader,

The “self-expanding value” # ‘self-contracting value’ self-contradiction of the capitalist system is difficult to delineate in detail.

Marx thought that he could do full justice to that job only via six thick multi-volume treatises –

1. Capital

2. Landed Property

3. Wage-Labor

4. the State

5. Foreign Trade

6. World Market and Crises.

However, at the opposite pole of complexity, it is also sometimes helpful to have some summary simplicity.

Between the two, one can form a better view of the whole.

So, here is a single sentence summary of the fatal flaw of the capitalist system, that drives it to its own self-«aufheben» self-negation, or to “the mutual ruin of the contending classes”, or to messy mixtures of both –

Capitalism’s fatal flaw is this: once higher industrial productivity is achieved by a critical preponderance, in mass and in value, of fixed capital means of production over other forms of industrial capital, each increment of further growth in industrial productivity – in productive force – subtracts more capital, due to obsolescence, than it adds, by profits reinvestment, negating profitability when resulting losses to fixed capital-value are subtracted from gross industrial profits, accounting period after accounting period, causing, at first, secular decline in the general rate of profit, and provoking a worldwide catastrophic response by owners of the largest concentrations of industrial and banking capital.

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