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Full Idea
Marx gives a first-rate account of the mechanism of capitalist oppression; but so good is it that one finds it hard to visualise how this mechanism could cease to function. …The exploitation is the competitive need to expand as rapidly as possible.
Gist of Idea
Marx showed that capitalist oppression, because of competition, is unstoppable
Source
Simone Weil (Reflections on Liberty and Social Oppression [1934], p.39)
Book Ref
Weil,Simone: 'Oppression and Liberty' [Routledge 1955], p.39
A Reaction
[Last bit compressed] This pinpoints the main motivation for desiring to overthrow capitalism. Resistance to that view is presumably the fear that an even worse oppression might replace it.