[Reader-list] The capitalist crisis and the return of history By David North (fwded Excerpts)

[Venugopalan K M]

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The capitalist crisis and the return of history By David North
26 March 2009

."...56. The history of all hitherto existing society," wrote Marx and
Engels in 1847, "is the history of class struggle." Underlying all the
claims that Marxism had been refuted and that the egalitarian aspirations of
socialism were irrelevant to the modern world, was the complacent belief
that the "class struggle" belonged to the past. Ironically, the official
dismissal of class struggle occurred under conditions in which the ruling
class pursued (and continues to pursue) its own interests relentlessly.
57. The one undoubtedly positive feature of the economic crisis is that it
is laying bare the real social relations of modern capitalist society,
exposing the irreconcilable conflict between the interests of the working
class and the capitalist aristocracy, and, therefore, preparing the ground
for the resurgence of the working class and the resumption of open class
struggle on a scale that will eclipse by far the battles of the 1930s. The
American working class is being drawn into an international maelstrom of
revolutionary class struggle. It is in this sense that the world crisis has
set the stage for the "return of history.



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