...created productive forces, are periodically destroyed. In these crises there breaks out an epidemic that, in all earlier epochs, would have seemed an...subsistence; industry and commerce seem to be destroyed; and whyP Because there is too much civilisation, too much means of subsistence, too much industry, too...

...threateningly, the existence of the bourgeois society. ... In these crises there breaks out an epidemic that, in all earlier epochs, would have seemed an absurdity — the epidemic of overproduction. . . . The conditions of bourgeois society are too narrow to comprise the wealth created by them. And...

...Communist Manifesto the same explanation is offered: "In these crises there breaks out an epidemic that in all earlier epochs would have seemed an absurdity — the epidemic of over-production." 2 In the work from which the passage quoted in the preceding paragraph is taken, Engels finds the immediate...

...cause of crises. Thus in the Communist Manifesto we find: "In these crises there breaks out an epidemic that in all earlier epochs would have seemed an absurdity — the epidemic of over-production." Also in the description of a crisis by Engels, as we have given it above, are the words, " The mass...

...barbarism; a famine, a universal war of devastation, seems to have cut off the supply of all means of life. Industry and commerce seem to be destroyed — and why? Because there is too much civilisation, too much of the means of life, too much industry, too much commerce. The productive forces...

...crises there breaks out an epidemic of overproduction. Industry and commerce seem to be destroyed, because there is too much civilization, too much means...subsistence, too much industry, too much commerce. Thq conditions of bourgeois society are too narrow to comprise the wealth created by them. Thp each,...

...created productive forces, are periodically destroyed. In these crises there breaks out an epidemic that, in all earlier epochs, would have seemed an...to be destroyed; and why? Because there is too much civilisation, too much means of subsistence, too much industry, too much commerce. The productive forces...

...no hold of them". Eight years later Marx-Engels trenchantly described the outbreak of an "epidemic that in all earlier epochs would have seemed an absurdity— the epidemic of overproduction". The period of depression is characterized as a relapse into "a state of momentary barbarism". See Carlyle:...

...created productive forces, are periodically destroyed. In these crises there breaks out an epidemic that, in all earlier epochs, would have seemed an absurdity - the epidemic of overproduction.29 Under these conditions, Marx believes that the revolution will inevitably succeed....

...previously created productive forces, are periodically destroyed. . . . There breaks out an epidemic that, in all earlier epochs, would have seemed an absurdity — the epidemic of overproduction. . . . And how does the bourgeoisie get over these crises? on the one hand by enforced destruction of...