ABSTRACT
The inextricable difficulties amidst which contemporary Marxism struggles derive especially from the fact that the social revolution has not arrived according to predictions of Karl Marx and Engels. Marxism, considered as a sociological theory of modern capitalism, can continue to live and has not ceased to illuminate the social question well, but Marxism as a system of socialist politics has not survived the disappearance of the catastrophic conception. The revolutionary idea that was believed to have been exhausted is revived among certain strata of the proletariat, and for this reason there is a certain spontaneous reappearance of Marxism. Marxism bases its determination of future law on the imminence of a catastrophe and on the perfect preparation of the proletariat become capable of dispensing with the capitalists. Socialism is the organization of revolt, and revolutionary-style syndicalism is so when specifically socialistic.
