If, as he says, capitalism will manage to adapt through the use of cartels and credit, then in fact the antagonism between capitalists and workers will also be resolved within capitalism. There will be no need to struggle for socialism. Credit and cartels, while being a socialized form of production, cannot lead to socialist production if they are indeed ways for capitalism to adapt. Finally, the third premise, the class consciousness of the proletariat, has become no more than an ideal if we remove the impending collapse of capitalism from the mix. In other words, without the first premise, the second becomes a prop for capitalism rather than a sign of socialism, and the class-conscious proletariat, the artificer of socialism has no reason to exist given a) the end of anarchy in capitalist production and b) the increased socialization of the same.