The capitalist system is committed to producing updated versions of its fundamental relations. This reproductive process has the unintended effect of producing constant resistance. New concepts and new theories of resistance are examples of these effects. They happen regardless of what the system wants or prefers.
Resistance is a present force in everything the system does and maintains. Since capitalist production and reproduction are constant, capitalist resistance is also constant. It’s never not happening; as long as there’s motion, there’s resistance. It’s produced internally, within the mechanisms of dominant power, as the expanding wiggle room that reveals what the system is lacking and where it’s weakest.
Just because a system is being reproduced, that doesn’t mean all the forces and resources that fuel it are necessarily reproduced to the same capacity, in the same form, or to the same degree of utility. Capitalism reproduces itself through imperfect processes and with varying degrees of control over the final product.
There are things the system wants to reproduce that it isn’t able to. Since not everything gets reproduced, and some things are lost, there’s room for resistance to advance toward revolutionary objectives by filling the void and reproducing resistance instead of domination.
