Why did Marx think capitalism is "muh progress" toward socialism? The Great Transformation shows that capitalism is actually a step away from the socialist mindset...and a lot of Christian socialists, like Milbank, feel the same way. I know Marx couldn't have read it, but it seems like his assumption that capitalism was a step toward the socialist mindset was sort of taken for granted because capitalism being "progress" was so enormously shilled at the time and Marx just swallowed the blue pill.