The overthrow of capitalism does not occur automatically. It is not objective economic factors such as a low GDP that make the revolution. It is people, the working class. Capitalism has been overripe for overthrow for decades. The lacking factor is class and socialist consciousness in the working class tens of millions, the subjective factor. Objective factors such as unemployment, poverty, unhappiness push the people, but only people can actually make the rev.
The objective nature of the process of history up until the current era (transition from capitalism to socialism) is due to the unconscious or semi-consciousness of people, as if they were a process of natural history. In other words, people have been objectified (object like) until now, especially the working classes. The previous revolutions were slight glimmers of semi-consciousness, sort of through a glass darkly struggles for liberty. This revolution will have to be more fully conscious.
We might not make it. We may suffer extinction or fall into barbarism through nuclear holocaust or environmental catastrophe by bourgeois shortsighted profiteering before the masses wake up.
Workers of the West , it's our turn,
Charles
>>> <digloria at mindspring.com> 03/16/99 06:05PM >>>
>Did Karl Marx project an objective outer limit for capitalism ? I thought
it was a subjective outer limit , the consciousness of the working class.
Chaz baby! long time no debate!
how do you come to view this as subjective?
kelley "i've been distracted by sin, sometimes without a reason"