Cultic Studies Journal Psychological Manipulation and Society Vol. It has been widely noted that apocalyptic images pervade the ideology of cultic groups. Crises become longer and more frequent, from the beginning of the twentieth century.
Monopoly capitalism becomes more and more a fetter on the development of the productive forces.
It is further held that this economic contingency will have enormous political repercussions. A CWI internal document from 1975 proclaims that the period of class struggle inaugurated by the 1973 oil crisis will end either in the greatest victory of the working class achieving power and the overthrow of the rule of capital with the installation of workers democracy or we will have a military police dictatorship which will destroy the labor movement and kill millions of advanced workers, shop stewards, ward secretaries, Labor youth, trade union branch secretaries and even individual members of the Labor movement. Such a toxic perspective poisons the internal atmosphere of the organization concerned. Mutually exclusive and totalistic options for the future are assured. Either there will be a completely new form of society, hitherto unknown in human history, or there will be a relapse into forms of Nazism, this time threatening global nuclear destruction.