"structural contradictions" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it to refer to an inconsistency or paradox between two or more aspects of a system's structure or design. For example, "The architects left several structural contradictions in the building's design that caused it to collapse."
But Gorbachev's reforms were undermined by structural contradictions in the economy and the one-party state, as Kotkin demonstrates, although it is unclear whether he believes the system was reformable at all.
Many serious economists warned that the currency union as devised in the 1990s was seriously flawed and might come apart, because of what in the good old Marxist days people used to call "structural contradictions".
They should look for structural contradictions and devise a solution that can be implemented with existing means and resources.
This paper attempts to identify some of these structural contradictions, all the while acknowledging a much broader, and more complex, context of change.
The responses to observations of a changing environment are derived from accumulated experience from intimate human-environment relationships; however, new structural contradictions have been exposed in this system, inhibiting traditional responses.
Investigating the relations between the actors participating to a program could be of interest, since can e.g. show structural contradictions in the organisation of the different levels involved [10].
The rebellion of the offspring regarding values and their instrumental reliance on their parents constitute the structural contradiction of the relationship.
There is, however, a structural contradiction between the state-dominated media system and the ongoing media marketization process in contemporary China, which is manifested in the discursive negotiation between partisanship and professionalism of Chinese media workers.
It is not the result of technological change, but the response to the structural contradiction between a global system and a national state (Castells and Cardoso 2005, p. 15 16).
Added to the Marxian concepts of structural causality, contradiction, uneven development, and overdetermination is that of the "structure in dominance".
In contrast, a positive IgM RF test at baseline or at any time during the first three years failed to predict progression of radiographic structural damage, in contradiction to previous reports [ 3, 10, 18, 22].
