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ruthless critique of all that exists — “more against ostensible friends than against open enemies” — one must divide into two, always — “without revolutionary theory, there can be no revolutionary movement.” 🏳️🌈 🇵🇭 ☭ | gentile barbarian
![[...] If we have maintained this strange, stupefying relationship to Capital for one hundred years, it is because of the class struggle. We need to come to an agreement about that struggle here. We are far too inclined, when we talk about it, to suppose that what is in question is the class struggle of the proletariat and its allies. Since we take part in its struggle and have a stake in its victory, this is only to be expected. But we are in danger of forgetting the bourgeois class struggle. Above all, we are in danger of forgetting that, except when the relation of forces is reversed, the bourgeoisie holds the overall initiative in the class struggle; in other words, the bourgeois class struggle is the more powerful. What is called the domination of the class in power is reflected in the preponderance of the bourgeois class struggle over the proletarian class struggle.
Louis Althusser, “Book on Imperialism”, in History and Imperialism: Writings, 1963–1986, trans. G.M. Goshgarian (UK: Polity Press, 2020), p. 57.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:e3r7krzvfvprmevn6izxlxg6/bafkreihuh6ksquy4k4vdc5szr2zegfjxy7yxmrteizqcuu7ojapbuzfhtu)
![Where the Old Man [viz. Engels] is irreplaceable is the interpretation of scripture. With all respect for the younger Church Fathers, the rich experience and authority of Engels is absent even with Kautsky; Ede [Bernstein] is beginning to doubt himself; and Plekhanov is too foreign to the masses for him to exercise influence on them. Accordingly we shall have to get along for awhile without a “Source of Truth”; and this may often be noticed as uncomfortable.
H. Kendall Rogers, Before the Revisionist Controversy: Kautsky, Bernstein, and the Meaning of Marxism, 1895-1898 (New York: Garland Publishing, Inc., 1992), 2](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:e3r7krzvfvprmevn6izxlxg6/bafkreibwwudf7ojkjaqhwkjzpjutzrudv2uynpxmrsdm4gfbs6scyxhz2y)
![[...] Engel’s testament named Bernstein as an executor and specified that he and Bebel were to care for Engels’s literary effects. Bernstein wrote Kautsky that Engels had known that Bernstein would not misinterpret his writings.
H. Kendall Rogers, Before the Revisionist Controversy: Kautsky, Bernstein, and the Meaning of Marxism, 1895-1898 (New York: Garland Publishing, Inc., 1992), 1](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:e3r7krzvfvprmevn6izxlxg6/bafkreielmtzlcnz7rwrww6u4p2ceuu4kxmv35syqcjarryhzvdt72ie3va)
