EVERLASTING CLASSICS VERSUS THE LIVING DEAD The crisis of politics leads to a crisis of the “communist programme” from the very moment the communization of society can no longer be conceived of as the application of a “programme” that would be in line with the historical needs of the proletariat, but which would require its ratification or approval as a result of its simultaneously external character in regard to its being and its real activity.
EVERLASTING CLASSICS VERSUS THE LIVING DEAD
The tradition of all dead generations weighs like a nightmare on the brain of the living. And just as they seem to be occupied with revolutionizing themselves and things, creating something that did not exist before, precisely in such epochs of revolutionary crisis they anxiously conjure up the spirits of the past to their service, borrowing from them names, battle slogans, and costumes in order to present this new scene in world history in time-honoured disguise and borrowed language