Used as a tool, capitalism can work well as a way of developing the productive forces, but it is not sustainable because capitalism will always try to become a form of politics, where it destroys all society. It will never limit itself to being just a tool. The market tool is only useful in a socialist state that is willing to limit the profits of capital, but the capitalists will never tolerate these limits, and they will always seek to capture the state whereby capitalism becomes a form of politics and not a tool for production.
Once capitalism is a politics you have the free market jungle, and society is destroyed. Remember when Margaret Thatcher said, “There is no such thing as society?” That is what she was talking about. So the only way capitalism works is in the hands of a socialist state as a tool, but that won’t work because the capitalists will soon capture the state and end that regime and replace it with free Market Hell, which doesn’t work at all.
And those are what Marxists call “contradictions.”
