What society is, if not a system, remains more obscure than ever before. This question is dissolved – and once again we have a bourgeois motif of thought and bourgeois reflexivity before us – into a temporal relationship: the system is society in its (capitalist) present, the actual society is what comes after overcoming the system. For a political interest in this debate, it may suffice to explain that the society of the future will be the system dominated by the system overcomers. Then it is necessary to take sides. For a scientific interest, the primary question is whether the analytical potential of systems theory is adequately used – or rather wasted – with this contrast. matrix 
~
LUHMANN, Niklas, 2018. Systemtheorie der Gesellschaft. 2. Aufl. Berlin: Suhrkamp. ISBN 978-3-518-58705-8