Marxism has described the capitalist economy, its particular laws and its overall structure, as a transient mode of production, destined to suffer continuous and violent explosions of internal crisis, under the weight of its own contradictions and of the class antagonisms which develop inside of it.

But - contrarily to a widespread, and wrong, interpretation - Marxist theory of the crisis excludes the perspective of a possible automatic and vertical breakdown of the capitalist mode of production. The crisis, which is originated by the fall of profits, can only have its bourgeoise solution, i.e. war and generalized destruction of capital and work-force in excess (human beings), if the working class will not be able to realize its own proletarian solution, i.e. the communist revolution. Capitalism leads the whole humanity into worse and worse wars and catastrophes. But this arriving point, which is reproduced in each cycle of the accumulation of capital, as the only way out of the economic crisis into which the bourgeoise society precipitates, does not mean and cannot by itself lead to the end of capitalism, nor to its overcome in the sense of revolution and in the direction of communism.

Capitalism is moribund; imperialism represents its last historical phase of parasitic decadence: it makes the domination of capital more powerful and absolute, but at the same time it makes its survival more precarious and vulnerable. The alternative, i.e. its revolutionary negation, communism, is however conditioned by the active presence of a direction and an organization, a consciousness and a will of action: class struggle and revolutionary party are the diggers of this system.

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