The material basis for such a society already exists, but all of these components are still activated, controlled and socialised by value, either in the form of capital, or in the earlier form of simple commodities. The labour force is a commodity. Instead of enabling man to appropriate the world on the material, intellectual and affective levels, labour is now only a means for producing objects in order to increase value. One must bear this in mind when considering unofficial strikes, riots, etc., even when these actions fail to assume and express a communist perspective. The proletariat remains the dominant revolutionary force, but its action goes beyond the limit of the factory.
Revolution changes society as a whole.
VII Crises cannot be studied apart from communism, and vice-versa. This does not imply that all depressions have communist potentialities. The 1929 crash was a crisis within the existing economy and society, not a crisis of the economy and society. Such is not the case today. Civil war is possible from now on, even though present struggles do not show positive communist activity.