As the class struggle sharpens in the U.S. Marxism will come into its own as a great popular study.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Marxism is a revolutionary worldview that must always struggle for new revelations.
The important part of Marxism was its demand for active, constant, practical, class-war.
Classes struggle, some classes triumph, others are eliminated. Such is history; such is the history of civilization for thousands of years.
What guides Marxism, then, is a different model of society, and a different conception of the function of the knowledge that can be produced by society and acquired from it.
The only conclusion you can draw from the real historical movement is that by and large, in day-to-day life, what Lenin called trade union consciousness dominates the working class. I would call it elementary class consciousness of the working class.
Class struggle: external peace, international solidarity, peace among peoples. This is the sacred slogan of international socialist democracy that liberates nations.
We do not believe that the Marxist program, which embodies the continuity of the experience of the actual class struggle and real revolutions of the last one hundred and fifty years, is a definitely closed book.
Marxism is like a classical building that followed the Renaissance; beautiful in its way, but incapable of growth.
Marxism is essentially a product of the bourgeois mind.
Marxism is the opium of the intellectuals.