But it is only a starting-point for further discussion. We are planning to produce a book in English with the help of Black and Red in Detroit. I One must go back to the analysis of capital to fully grasp the importance of present-day workers' struggles, and also the nature of revolutionary groups and our own problems. Revolutionary action is neither a repetition of the past, nor is it totally different from what it used to be. II Conflicts between profits and wages are only one aspect of a more general movement.
Capital is an accumulation of value, i.e., of crystallised abstract labour.
Marx's Capital destroys specialised fields of knowledge. We can see communist potentials within capitalism only if we understand modern society as a whole. It is useless to wonder if economic crises bring about proletarian actions, or if workers' combativity creates economic difficulties. The proletariat is a commodity which tends to destroy itself as such, both because the system attacks it and because its conditions of life become unbearable. The proletariat is a value which can no longer exist as such.