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The Universal Crisis
Pannekoek, Anton
http://www.connexions.org/CxArchive/MIA/pannekoe/1920/universal-crisis.htmhttp://www.marxists.org/archive/pannekoe/1920/universal-crisis.htm Date Written: 1920-02-05 Publisher: The Call Year Published: 1920 Resource Type: Article Cx Number: CX10854 That deafness and blindness concerning the coming dissolution of Capitalism is the historic fatality of the bourgeoisie. But the mass of workers are also blind and deaf to this dissolution. They regard the march of events without understanding, and without knowledge. To hope that the collapse of Capitalism will find a proletariat revolutionarily prepared and conscious of its mission is now shown to be utopian. The collapse proceeds too rapidly, events spring too suddenly before the eyes of men for them to be able to adopt their minds to the new realities. That, however, does not mean that they will do nothing. Subject Headings |