description: .It is now generally admitted that we are living in a period of very great historical cataclysms, of violent upheavals in all social life, of the most radical changes, and of the crash of old systems of material existence and the old outlook on life. Wars, revolutions, the crisis, the dictatorship of the proletariat, Fascism, the threat of new wars, the heroic struggle of the Austrian workers – all these facts are extremely ominous for capitalism, which might say, with Horatio:In what particular thought to work I know not;But, in the gross and scope of my opinion,This bodes some strange eruption to our state.The strain of the contradictions which are under constant pressure in the unbearably stuffy atmosphere of the capitalist world may at any moment end in some new catastrophe quite unexpected in its form.Source: New Masses, 4 December 1934. Scanned, prepared and annotated for the Marxist Internet Archive by Paul Flewers
title: Crisis of Capitalist Culture
publisher: New masses