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 Historical Retrogression or Socialist RevolutionA Discussion Article on the Thesis of the IKD
James, C.L.R. (writing as J.R. Johnson)http://www.connexions.org/CxArchive/MIA/james-clr/works/1946/01/ikd1.htm http://www.marxists.org/archive/james-clr/works/1946/01/ikd1.htm
 
 Publisher:  New International
 Year Published:  1946
 Resource Type:  Article
 
 Capitalism fetters, i.e., hampers, impedes the development of the productive forces. But it does not bring them to a halt. They move forward by advance, retardation, standstill, but they move forward, bringing the proletariat with them. The theoretical analysis is that the more capitalism increases the productive forces, the more it brings them into conflict with the existing social relations. The more it increases and develops the productive forces the more it socializes labor and the more it degrades it and the more it drives it to revolt.
 
 
 
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