Precisely because Marx was convinced that the cause of the proletariat was of decisive importance for the whole future of mankind, he wanted to creat… - Ernest Mandel

By stating that the analysis of the laws of motion governing the capitalist mode of production necessarily includes at least some essential elements of an analysis of economic phenomena valid for the whole historical epoch encompassing economic organizations in which commodity production exists, one extends the validity of parts of Marx’s Capital not only into the past but also into the future.

Yes, he does indeed and again this is very positive. Our movement has defended this thesis for 55 years and was therefore labelled as . Today people, both in the Soviet Union and in a large part of the international communist movement, understand better where the real counterrevolutionaries were.

Capital, explaining the origins of the capitalist mode of production, points towards the inevitable historical decline and fall of this same social system. An economic theory based upon the historical relativity of every economic system, its strict limitation in time, tactlessly reminds Messrs the capitalists, their hangers-on and their apologists that capitalism itself is a product of history. It will perish in due course as it once was born. A new social form of economic organization will then take the place of the capitalist one: it will function according to other laws than those which govern the capitalist economy.