When it gets to be a matter of the complete transformation of the social organization, the masses themselves must participate, must understand what is at stake and why they are to act. Engels introduction to Marx's Class Struggles in France . It is, however very difficult for workers to keep focused on the goal of real freedom while their present needs weigh so heavily on them. In the Warning of the Gracchi De Leon compared the prerevolutionary conditions before feudalism fell, with the social and economic struggles of today's world. He explained how the feudal economy was being slowly undermined by capitalism.
Socialist science is no automatic affair.
It is the result of many causes operating together. The working class, the subject class upon whom depends the overthrow of capitalism and the raising of Socialism, differs from all previous subject classes called upon by history to throw down an old and set up a new social system. This key difference creates a difficulty for workers. Where wealth gave the developing capitalist class strength in its battle with the feudal system, poverty imparts weakness to our class. Wealth imparts strength, strength self-reliance.