Alongside the Russian workers' attempts to create socialism not as some abstract far-off utopia in a political party program, but through confronting and changing the concrete reality of their everyday life were the activities of socialist parties, supposedly sympathetic to working class aspirations. This pamphlet tells the story of the Russian workers' struggle, in particular the efforts of the factory committees.
"Decadence theory" starts from the basic marxist principle that at some point in its life, any mode of production reaches a point where it can no longer assure human progress. For the Communist International, capitalism's entry into decadence, what the International called "the epoch of wars and revolutions" was marked by the the outbreak of war in 1914, and the October Revolution of 1917. The theoretical foundations were laid by thinkers like Rosa Luxemburg and Paul Mattick, then further developed by various Left Communist groups in the 1970s. Nearly half a century on, as we face the existential threat of ecological disaster, it is time to rethink "decadence theory" and bring it up to date. That is what this new book "Capitalism's Endgame" proposes to do.
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