described the crisis tendencies of capitalism in terms of "the enforced destruction of a mass of productive forces":

In these crises, a great part not only of existing production, but also of previously created productive forces, are periodically destroyed.

A few years later, in the Grundrisse, Marx was writing of "the violent destruction of capital not by relations external to it, but rather as a condition of its self-preservation". In other words, he establishes a necessary link between the generative or creative forces

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