Revolution | IMGpapers 1980

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Kendall rightly points out that Marx, in his well-known Preface to the Critique Economy, possibility of socialist revolution on the crisis-ridden nature capitalism; inability to solve humanity's problems by developing the means of production.

'At certain stage development,' Marx wrote, loces in sucicly conflict tine existing production. ... From forms of development of the productive forces these Then begins epoch of social revolution.

Kendall is not at all happy about that. •Evervone KROWS I experience' that capitalism twentieth century has dave occu producuve loices. observes. Capitalism delivers the goods. What basis, then, for revolution?

Kendall's sleight of hand. Marx's Preface is notoriously abbreviated _answered is not whether capitalism can periodically develop production, whether the productive relations regularly collide ine. development of the productive forces.?

Socialist Challenge 3 April 1980