WHERE ARE WE HEADING TOWARDS :
WHERE ARE WE HEADING TOWARDS ? In reality, neither booms nor slumps in and of themselves cause revolutions. But it is the rapid successions of boom and slump, the interruption of the "normal" pattern of existence, which provokes general uncertainty and instability, and causes people to question the existing state of things. Even more profound are the shocks caused by wars, which turn the world upside down, uproot millions and compel men and women to shed their illusions and finally stand face to face with reality.
Anna's agitation was a concrete expression of the fact that the old regime had reached an impasse.
But to expose something is not to cause it. The crisis on international finance markets and the run on Dollar recently exposed the chronic weakness of the Capitalist economy.The decay of U.S. capitalism has taken place gradually over a period of decades, disguised by the general upswing of the world economy. This was explained by the Marxists decades ago. The difference now is that, under the relentless pressure of world capitalist crisis, the mass of the American people are beginning to wake up to the fact.
The mood of discontent emanating from the industrial centers found an echo in the ranks of the army, suffering from corruption and exhaustion. The crisis of the regime anticipated the movement of the masses.
Every revolution begins, not at the bottom, but at the top. Its first manifestation is a series of crises and splits in the ruling class, which feels itself to be in a blind alley, and unable to continue to rule in the old way.
A revolution breaks out when all the antagonisms of a society have reached their highest tension. But this makes the situation unbearable even for the classes of the old society - that is, those who are doomed to break up."
The smell of corruption and scandal always hangs around a regime which has outlived itself. The present-day epidemic of political and financial crisis and greed of of the corrupt in Europe, Japan, the USA, are no more an accident than the Rasputin regime at the court of "Nicholas the Bloody," or the "Pompadour factor" of the Ancient Regime in France.
WHERE ARE WE HEADING TOWARDS ? In reality, neither booms nor slumps in and of themselves cause revolutions. But it is the rapid successions of boom and slump, the interruption of the "normal" pattern of existence, which provokes general uncertainty and instability, and causes people to question the existing state of things. Even more profound are the shocks caused by wars, which turn the world upside down, uproot millions and compel men and women to shed their illusions and finally stand face to face with reality.
Anna's agitation was a concrete expression of the fact that the old regime had reached an impasse.
But to expose something is not to cause it. The crisis on international finance markets and the run on Dollar recently exposed the chronic weakness of the Capitalist economy.The decay of U.S. capitalism has taken place gradually over a period of decades, disguised by the general upswing of the world economy. This was explained by the Marxists decades ago. The difference now is that, under the relentless pressure of world capitalist crisis, the mass of the American people are beginning to wake up to the fact.
The mood of discontent emanating from the industrial centers found an echo in the ranks of the army, suffering from corruption and exhaustion. The crisis of the regime anticipated the movement of the masses.
Every revolution begins, not at the bottom, but at the top. Its first manifestation is a series of crises and splits in the ruling class, which feels itself to be in a blind alley, and unable to continue to rule in the old way.
A revolution breaks out when all the antagonisms of a society have reached their highest tension. But this makes the situation unbearable even for the classes of the old society - that is, those who are doomed to break up."
The smell of corruption and scandal always hangs around a regime which has outlived itself. The present-day epidemic of political and financial crisis and greed of of the corrupt in Europe, Japan, the USA, are no more an accident than the Rasputin regime at the court of "Nicholas the Bloody," or the "Pompadour factor" of the Ancient Regime in France.
