There is a kernel of truth here. One of the more important results from Capital is that capitalism actually furnishes the conditions for its own replacement precisely through the tendency for monopolies to form. These monopolies take over industries or even entire economic sectors. The elimination of competition and the resulting internal organization is none other than a planned economy, and the reduction to just a few owners actually makes revolution easier as all that would need to happen is the formal change in ownership from private to public hands.
Radhika Desai talks about it at 36:45 here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AlQfmjLd978&t=36m44s
the reduction to just a few owners actually makes revolution easier
It’s also what makes the downwardly mobile petit bourgeoisie a well-primed vector for fascism. Their immediate class interest is not not be proletarianized, which can only be achieved by unseating the shrinking number of CapTAiNs oF InDusTRy and redistributing their power amongst themselves. And of course, their class solidarity is fickle and quickly collapses without a clear enemy to focus on, which is also why fascism tends to burn through scapegoats and escalate to genocide.
There is a kernel of truth here. One of the more important results from Capital is that capitalism actually furnishes the conditions for its own replacement precisely through the tendency for monopolies to form. These monopolies take over industries or even entire economic sectors. The elimination of competition and the resulting internal organization is none other than a planned economy, and the reduction to just a few owners actually makes revolution easier as all that would need to happen is the formal change in ownership from private to public hands.
Radhika Desai talks about it at 36:45 here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AlQfmjLd978&t=36m44s
It’s also what makes the downwardly mobile petit bourgeoisie a well-primed vector for fascism. Their immediate class interest is not not be proletarianized, which can only be achieved by unseating the shrinking number of CapTAiNs oF InDusTRy and redistributing their power amongst themselves. And of course, their class solidarity is fickle and quickly collapses without a clear enemy to focus on, which is also why fascism tends to burn through scapegoats and escalate to genocide.