Unconscious Transitions As Decadence

Updated: 2025.09.23 29D ago 2 sources
Following Samir Amin, social orders can transform without a conscious 'revolution,' appearing as natural decay. Today’s platformized, unequal, low‑productivity environment may reflect such an unconscious transition, complicating standard Marxist stage theories. — If change proceeds without organized agency, political strategy must address institutional drift and incentive design, not just movement rhetoric.

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You Have Been Conquered by the Machine
Leighton Woodhouse 2025.09.23 60% relevant
The book’s 'Machine thrives on change' theme and the sense of living into an unrecognizable world align with the notion that social orders transform without conscious revolution, producing a felt decline amid technological advance.
Technofeudalism versus Total Capitalism
Alex Hochuli 2025.08.20 100% relevant
The article invokes Amin’s 'model of decadence' to interpret claims that capitalism is seamlessly decaying into something new.
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