In recent history, capitalism has continued to adapt. It isn’t necessarily getting stronger, but it’s still expanding, and there’s no reason to think that it will lead to its own downfall. While there are conjunctures where it could get stronger or weaker, capitalism won’t take itself out. It can and will adapt. This fact poses a problem for our goal of libertarian socialism.
While it’s true that crises are produced by capitalism, together with the interests of the State, there’s a shared objective of managing social order through crises. However, the elements they’re forced to reproduce collaboratively reveal the most precarious points in the system of domination.
Nevertheless, the system can overcome problems in the short term and, in time, come back stronger than before. This is the basis for the concept of development. It’s an expansion, an advance through crisis. Capitalism has a history of successfully expanding, and without a rupture from this system of domination, it will continue to advance into the future.
