anyone know of any groups in kansas? specifically north central region?
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May Day, Chicago, Thursday, 10am -- *WITHHOLD LABOR and MARCH AND RALLY DOWNTOWN*
Please forward this email to all progressive student and community groups.
Hello everyone,
This Thursday, May 1st, people will turn out across the country to
demonstrate and march in celebration of International Workers' Day, to march
for immigrant and labor rights, continuing the struggle of progressive
movements through out the history of liberal-capitalism to effect economic
and social change. Thursday's marches are the occasion to recognize and
enumerate the intolerable social and political situations enabled by that
system today and to demand:
universal amnesty, equal rights in the workplace, the right to unionize, the
Employee Free Choice Act, fair wages and full employment, the end of the
occupation in Iraq, equal access to education, universal healthcare
*CALLING ALL STUDENTS: *
* Leave campus to join fellow progressive labor and community organizations
to*
*WITHHOLD LABOR and MARCH AND RALLY DOWNTOWN*
* Take part in a movement to change our society!*
*Join major events in Los Angeles, New York City, Chicago, San Antonio,
Dallas Texas, Atlanta Ga, Phoenix, other cities in the United States and
Latin America.*
*Meet at 11:00 am at Ashland and Ogden, and march together to Union Park for
a public rally! *
* *
Here are five reasons why students of conscience should take part in
Thursday's mobilizations:
1. Student movements have played a major role in social struggles for
democracy and civil rights. Students have a unique place in public
discourse, as the young people in national institutions of learning, we have
the task and privilege to envision and shape the future of our society.
2. Students come from communities that are effected by today's
political problems; we have friends and family who are serving in Iraq, who
are threatened by deportation because they do not have legal documentation
to work in this country, who do not have access to healthcare, and who labor
without just compensation.
3. Students have a unique role in international political discourse.
We inhabit the international institutions of higher education, and we
benefit from access to funds to study and travel abroad. We study with
fellow students and professors from around the world, and are thus empowered
to develop a critical international perspective on political issues in this
country.
4. Our 'workplace,' the university, is an ideal place of political
discourse, we have logistical and practical tools to share information and
organize ourselves that people working in other parts of society do not have
access to.
5. We need to create an international community of citizens of
conscience, willing to stand up and send a message to our political leaders,
and the rest of society. We need to show that the American public is
demanding comprehensive immigration policy reform that protects the civil
and human rights of all workers, both native and foreign, who work in this
country and contribute to this nation's wealth.
The Chicago Students for a Democratic Society stand with other progressive
community and labor organizations to march on May 1st.
Take a stand! Join more than 100 students across Chicago that are already
planning to come out.
Please look at the following links for more information:
www.movimiento10demarzo.org- Visit the site of one of the major coalition
groups planning the May 1st march.
http://isgreaterthan.net/2008/04/25/...e-progressive/ -
Read an article on the state of progressive politics of immigration and
labor rights.
http://www.archive.org/details/Sdspl...eLaborMovement -
Listen to an audio file of a panel discussion with organizers of the May 1st
marches for student organizers.
In solidarity,
Ben Blumberg, Ashleigh Campi, Ian Morrison
Chicago Students for a Democratic Society
The Platypus Affiliated Society
anyone know of any groups in kansas? specifically north central region?
There are a number of groups in the Lawrence area, including Kansas Mutual Aid, which you might want to get in contact with.Originally Posted by Revolutionary19
You should come to the Great Plains/Midwestern anarchist conference in a week or so at the Solidarity center in Lawrence. It should be pretty good. The plan is to form some sort of regional anarchist federation for people in our area, like a better organized Great Plains Anarchist Network, I think.
You can check out the proposal here:
http://www.revleft.com/vb/midwest-an...226/index.html
The date has been pushed back to May 16-18, so it's coming up soon. I'm excited for it.
I'm in Kansas City, by the way.
Did you hear about the rose that grew from a crack in the concrete?
Proving nature's law is wrong it learned to walk with out having feet.
Funny it seems, but by keeping its dreams, it learned to breathe fresh air.
Long live the rose that grew from concrete when no one else ever cared.
Holy shit awesome! i wish i could go but im 16 and have to pay off fines and do community service wich sucks ass but its awesome to know that kansas isnt full of conservatives
Any mans death diminishes me, because I am involved in Mankinde; And therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls;
It tolls for thee ~ John Donne
Kettering, Ohio. i'm trying to organize, i have like 2 or 3 comrades who are helping.
but one agrees with like everything we think and stuff but he refuses to help us organize because he refuses to admit he's radical...yeah i don't know.
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Disgusting. You're all ignorant fucks.
East coaster here about to move to TN/KY, right on the border about 40 minutes away from Nashville.
=( moving to ft campbell unfortunatly.
Any Anacrho-commie groups in that area? I'm gonna be mighty lonely.
I'm in Detroit, MI right now taking care of some sick family members. Anyone know of any leftist/anarchist happenings around MetroDetroit? Or where these people hang out?
Isnt anything out here in Arkansas either..
Haha, good to see the area's got more leftism in it now. I'm in Clarksville.
Anyone know of anything major going down in the area?
I KNOW YOU TIPNUP!!!
we definitely need organization.
i doubt well get alot of publicity though... and we'd need to form a general leftist league, you being anarchist and me being communist. it would probably be more successful than a separate anarchist and communist league...
the ever more sophisticated weapons piling up in the arsenals of the wealthiest and the mightiest can kill the illiterate, the ill, the poor and the hungry, but they cannot kill ignorance, illness, poverty or hunger.
– Fidel Castro
political compass
economic left/right: -9.12
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -7.95
Any comrades here residing in St. Louis, MO? I'm not living in the metropolitan area so there isn't any activism or radical thought that I've seen in my community. I've been to a few demonstrations in the city, and there is a cool info shop on a small community with red/black bisected flags everywhere. But alas, its a good ways from where I'm living.
One thing that the so-called revolutionary parties and organizations do well is keeping all the idiots in one place.
CHICAGO EVENT
On Sat. Nov. 22 there will be an event at Cafe Mestizo (1646 W. 18th St, Chicago, Il) starting at 7 pm, to benefit activists at the Universidad Autonoma Benito Juarez de Oaxaca.
At 7 pm the newly released independent documentary "Desde el Filo de la Navaja" (From the Edge of the Blade), from TrickleUp Films, will be screened for the first time in Chicago. After the film there'll be a party with a DJ, and around 11 pm the Maria Blues Carballo Trio will play.
The requested donation for entry is $7, with food and drinks available for sale during the event.
Questions? Please contact jennn325 at hotmail dot com
Apart from the monthly IWW GMB meetings, there is this event coming up:
STATEWIDE ORGANIZERS CONFERENCE
MORATORIUM NOW!
Saturday, December 6, 2008
12:00 p.m. – 4:00 p.m.
Central United Methodist Church, 2nd floor
23 E. Adams (at Woodward), Detroit
Website: www.moratorium-mi.org
I may or may not be at this thing. Still trying to make arrangements.
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Emergency Protest and March, Friday, January 2nd, 3pm, Tribune Plaza, 435 N. Michigan
http://fightbacknews.org/2008/12/chi...es-in-gaza.htm
Chicago: Protest condemns Israeli massacres in Gaza
By Stephanie Weiner
Chicago, IL - 500 people gathered here Dec. 28 for an emergency rally and press conference to condemn the Israeli attacks in the Gaza. The crowd formed a circle around the speakers in front of the Water Tower at noon. The real anger was felt when most of the group moved to the corner to chant at the lone Zionist with an Israeli flag across the street. The militant chanting ranged from, "Free, free Palestine!" to "End the occupation now!"
The young crowd, almost all wearing Palestinian scarves or carrying flags, called for an end to U.S. money to Israel. They said it most simply in their chant, "Down, down with Israel." The protesters left with plans to pass on the word about an even larger rally called for this coming Friday afternoon, Jan. 2, at the Tribune Plaza, which is one block from the Israeli Consulate.
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EMERGENCY PROTEST in Response to Israel's Ground Invasion of Gaza!
EMERGENCY PROTEST
in Response to Israel's Ground Invasion of Gaza!
Just a few hours ago, the Israeli military began rolling its tanks into Gaza. The anticipation is that there will be heavy losses of Palestinian civilians. This is the 8th day of Israel's attack on the Palestinian people in Gaza, which has claimed almost 460 lives and wounded close to 2,500.
Please come to this emergency mobilization to stop Israel's terror!
Sunday, January 4, 2009
at 12 Noon
Old Water Tower Building
806 N. Michigan
Chicago, IL 60611
Stop the Killing of the Palestinian People!
Stop the War and Siege on Gaza!
End All U.S. Aid to Israel!
End the Israeli Occupation of Palestine!
Sponsored by Coalition for Justice in Palestine (this Coalition consists of the Palestinian, Arab, Muslim, and Arab Church groups that organized the mass protest on Friday, Jan. 2, 2009); International Solidarity Movement (ISM), ANSWER, Jewish Voice for Peace (JVP), Chicago Coalition Against War and Racism (CCAWR).
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2 articles: Israeli Troops Invade Gaza!
Emergency demonstration in support of Gaza set
for TOMORROW, Sunday, Jan 4th at noon at the
Old Water Tower!
Stay alert for more news and actions!
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http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/7809959.stm
ISRAELI TROOPS ENTER GAZA STRIP
by BBC
Israeli ground troops have entered the Gaza Strip, Israeli military officials have confirmed, a week after the offensive against Hamas began.
An Israeli military spokeswoman said the intention was to take control of areas from which Palestinian militants have been firing rockets into Israel.
Witnesses say armoured vehicles crossed into northern Gaza at four separate points, supported by helicopters.
Earlier, Israel intensified air and artillery attacks on the territory.
France has strongly criticised the Israeli land campaign. The British Foreign Secretary, David Miliband, said the escalation of the conflict would cause alarm and dismay.
In New York the UN Security Council is to hold a special meeting on the situation in Gaza shortly.
Israel has carried out more than 800 strikes on the Gaza Strip since the offensive started eight days ago, including 40 on Saturday.
The UN has warned of a worsening humanitarian crisis, and believes 25% of more than 400 Palestinians killed by Israel so far were civilians. Israel says about 80% of those killed were Hamas militants. Four Israelis have been killed by rocket fire from Gaza.
'Not war-hungry'
An Israeli military spokeswoman confirmed ground operations had begun and said the objective was "to destroy the Hamas terror infrastructure in the area of operations".
"We are going to take some of the launch areas used by Hamas," Maj Avital Leibovitch told reporters.
Israeli officials have described the offensive as a "limited" operation.
Defence Minister Ehud Barak said the ground campaign against Hamas "will not be easy or short, but we are determined".
"Our aim is to force Hamas to stop its hostile activities against Israel and Israelis from Gaza, and to bring about a significant change in the situation in the southern part of Israel," he told a news conference.
"We have carefully weighed all our operations. We are not war-hungry, but we shall not allow a situation in which our towns, villages and civilians are constantly targeted by Hamas."
Mr Barak also said Israel would "keep a sensitive eye" on its northern border with Lebanon, where it fought a short but bloody war with the Shia Hezbollah movement in 2006.
"We hope the situation will remain calm. Nevertheless, we are ready and alert to face any unwanted development in that area," he added.
The BBC's Paul Wood in Jerusalem says this is probably just the first wave of the assault, since there are said to be some 10,000 Israeli troops and hundreds of tanks massed on the border with Gaza.
The office of Prime Minister Ehud Olmert has also announced that the government has ordered the urgent call-up of "tens of thousands" of extra military reservists.
Just before the ground offensive began, Hamas issued a statement promising that Palestinian children would be picking over the ruins of Israeli tanks and the body parts of Israeli soldiers.
The militant group's exiled political leader, Khaled Meshaal, earlier warned Israel against a ground offensive, saying that a "black destiny" awaited Israeli forces if the entered Gaza.
"We will not break, we will not surrender or give in to your conditions," he said in a speech from the Syrian capital, Damascus.
Our correspondent says this promises to be a very bloody encounter.
Mosque attack
Earlier on Saturday, at least 13 people were killed in one Israeli raid when a missile struck a crowded mosque in Beit Lahiya, Palestinian medics said.
Witnesses said more than 200 people had been inside the Ibrahim al-Maqadna mosque for evening prayers when it was struck.
Correspondents say Israel has accused Hamas of using mosques to hide weapons and ammunition, but this is the first time a mosque has been hit at prayer time.
Militants in Gaza fired more rockets into southern Israel on Saturday, one of which hit the port of Ashdod, injuring two people.
Ceasefire calls
Tens of thousands of demonstrators meanwhile have been protesting worldwide against Israel's military operation, calling for an immediate ceasefire.
The biggest rally was in Paris where more than 20,000 people gathered. About 10,000 people protested in London.
Demonstrations also took place in Brussels, The Hague, Amsterdam, Ankara and Cyprus.
In Israel itself, tens of thousands of Israeli Arabs gathered in the town of Sakhnin to protest against their government's actions.
Story from BBC NEWS:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/pr/fr/-/2/h...st/7809959.stm
Published: 2009/01/03 22:52:36 GMT
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http://english.aljazeera.net/news/mi...056951537.html
ISRAEL BEGINS GAZA GROUND OFFENSIVE
The Israeli army has confirmed its troops have entered the Gaza Strip as it escalates its offensive on the eighth day of operations.
Speaking to Al Jazeera, a spokesman for the Israeli foreign ministry said: "They [Israeli ground forces] will be completing the mission of the air force, going for Hamas headquarters and weapons caches and giving a blow to their capability to launch attacks into Israel."
Alan Fisher, Al Jazeera's correspondent on the Israeli-Gaza border, said that the Israeli army had confirmed it had entered Gaza and that he had witnessed the movement of tanks and armoured vehicles in the area.
Hamas had earlier vowed to defeat the Israeli army if it invaded the territory.
Reservists mobilised
The Israeli cabinet said it had called up about 9,000 reservists as part of its preparations.
The gound assault came as the death toll of Palestinians climbed past 450 on Saturday as a strike on a northern Gaza town killed at least 11 people, including one child, who were praying in a mosque.
A column of tanks entered the besieged Gaza Strip though the Beit Hanoun crossing shortly after nightfall on Saturday.
Israeli artillery had started firing shells into the Gaza Strip for the first time on Saturday, ahead of the ground offensive.
Ofir Gendelman, an Israeli foreign ministry spokesman, said: "All we asking for is to create a normal life for people of Israel. We'll keep on targeting Hamas objectives until the situation on the ground there is transformed.
"They [Israeli ground forces] will be completing the mission of the air force, going for Hamas headquarters and weapons caches and giving a blow to their capability to launch attacks into Israel.
"It will take quite a number of days to get the job done."
Marwan Bishara, Al Jazeera's senior political analyst, said: "Israel can claim in various stages that it has won this or that war against Arabs but it is obvious since the invasion of Lebanon in 1982 that there is no military solution to Israel's secueity.
"It cannot bomb its way into peaceful co-existence. Israel is trying to do all it can to destroy Hamas but with more than 400 dead, there will be more than 400 more new recruits in Gaza.
"It has taken this path and will probably pay the price in the long term, short term it's the Palestinians who pay the price."
Hamas resistance
Israeli soldiers, tanks and armoured personnel carriers had been massing along Gaza's edge for days.
"If you commit the stupidity of launching a ground offensive, then a black destiny awaits you," Khaled Meshaal, the political leader of Hamas, said on Friday.
"You will soon find out that Gaza is the wrath of God."
Earlier on Saturday, the funeral of Abu Zakaria al-Jamal, a field commander of the armed wing of Hamas, took place.
Al-Jamal, who was a senior figure in the Izz al-Din al-Qassam Brigades, died of his wounds on Saturday after Israeli jets bombed his home overnight.
Medical officials say at least 450 people have died in Gaza and 2,250 have been injured since Israel's aerial bombardment began last week.
Four Israelis have been killed in the same period by Palestinian rockets, including longer-range weapons that have hit the port of Ashdod and the desert town of Beer-sheva.
On Saturday, Israel's military said more than a dozen rockets have been fired over the border.
Palestinians also reported more Israeli air strikes across the Gaza Strip. A school was among the buildings bombed.
Israeli jets have fired more than 700 missiles into Gaza since the assault began last week.
'Psychological warfare'
Ayman Mohyeldin, Al Jazeera's correspondent in Gaza, said: "The Israeli military continues to pound targets everywhere in the territory. On the eighth days of attacks people here are very much terrorised by what is going on.
"The Israeli military is engaging in very aggresive psychological warfare. They have been dropping leaflets warning Palestinians that they have to flee their homes and warning that anyone who lives in area that could be a possible target that their home will be targeted as well.
"So that is causing a ripple effect of fear, but the question is where do 1.5 million Palestinians trapped in Gaza go".
Trucks carrying more than 200 tonnes of Syrian Red Crescent aid left Kura Al Assad for Gaza on Saturday as concerns for a looming humanitarian disaster grew.
Israel says that there is a humanitarian crisis in Gaza and that it has increased its shipments of goods into the territory.
Speaking to Al Jazeera, Azmi Bishara, an Israeli-Palestinian and former Knesset member, said: "Mostly, the war against such a place – slums and refugee camps - can only be a war crime.
"Whatever the military result, the political situation would be the same. What is called in American language the axis of moderation, or the moderates in the Arab world, have already had a blow, they are weaker than before.
"I think this is the only practical 'achievement' of the war that the people who are for the settlements in the region are less legitimate now and weaker than they were before the war.
Blame game
Meshaal, speaking from the Syrian capital of Damascus on Friday, said Palestinians in Gaza were ready for any land offensive made by the Israelis.
"This battle was imposed on us and we are confident we will achieve victory because we have made our preparations.
"Our position is clear. We will not give in. Our resolve cannot be broken," he said.
"Our demand is also clear. The war must end, the siege lifted, and crossing points open without restriction."
But George Bush, the US president, in his first public comments on the hostilities, said Hamas had "instigated" Israel's war on Gaza, referring to the rocket attacks on Israel's southern towns.
"There must be monitoring mechanisms in place to help ensure that smuggling of weapons to terrorist groups in Gaza comes to an end," he said in remarks prepared for his weekly Saturday radio address.
Osama Hamdan, a senior Hamas official in Beirut, told Al Jazeera that the party to be blamed for the present situation is Israel, not Hamas.
"It's clear now that Israelis are blocking all the political solutions. The main question is supposed to be what will be the right end for this? And the clear answer is ending the occupation."
Speaking to Al Jazeera, Nir Rosen, a Beirut-based journalist, said: "There isn't very much [Hamas] can do except resist and withstand the Israeli assaults.
"These attacks are described as an Israeli retaliation which is ridiculous. Every Palestinian act of resistance is a retaliation for 60 years of occupation and dispossession.
"This use of violence is essential to Zionism, in an attempt to crush the Palestinian spirit to crush the Palestinian resolve."
Source: Al Jazeera and agencies
For anyone in the Ohio area:
There will be a rally for LGBT equality at the Ohio Statehouse. It will take place on January 31st, 2009. The Statehouse is at the intersection of High St. and Broad St. It starts at 1:30 PM and continues on until people decide to leave. We're hoping to get some significant numbers, so I hope you can attend.
Ohio Statehouse
Columbus, Ohio. 43214.
1:30 PM
The basic ideas of Marxism, upon which alone a revolutionary party can be constructed, are continuous in their application and have been for a hundred years. The ideas of Marxism, which create revolutionary parties, are stronger than the parties they create, and never fail to survive their downfall. They never fail to find representatives in the old organizations to lead the work of reconstruction. These are the continuators of the tradition, the defenders of the orthodox doctrine. The task of the uncorrupted revolutionists, obliged by circumstances to start the work of organizational reconstruction, has never been to proclaim a new revelation – there has been no lack of such Messiahs, and they have all been lost in the shuffle – but to reinstate the old program and bring it up to date.
- James P. Cannon, 'The Degeneration of the Communist Party'
5 PM, Thurs, Feb. 19 Palestine Solidarity Demo
[anticapdiscuss] Re: 5 PM, Thurs, Feb. 19 Palestine Solidarity Demo
Wed, Feb 18, 2009 at 9:55 PM
American Muslims for Palestine, Students for Justice in Palestine-UIC,
Palestine Solidarity Group - Chicago, Chicagoans Against Apartheid in Palestine,
Jewish Voice for Peace- Chicago, and the Chicago chapter of the International
Solidarity Movement urge you to join us on Thursday, February 19 as we greet
Israeli Consul General Orli Gil. This will be a nonviolent demonstration to
call attention to Israeli war crimes in Gaza and to stand in solidarity with
Palestine.
5 PM - 6:15 PM
Thursday, February 19
American Jewish Committee (55 E. Monroe, Suite #2930, Chicago)
Don't shut up. Stand Up for Palestine!
ISM-Chicago has learned that the American Jewish Committee’s Young
Professionals Division, ACCESS, will conduct “an evening of stimulating conversation
concerning the most critical issues affecting Israel. Israeli Consul General
Orli Gil will address issues like: What was the impact of the war in Gaza?
What are the implications of the recent Israeli elections? What are Israel’s
initial perceptions of the U.S. – Israeli relations under the Obama
administration?”
Any thing going on in wisconsin
Make them a mod, then strip them of modship, then ban them!
Revleft Policy on Outspoken Members.
antiwar demo, Sat. March 14, noon [Chicago, IL]
[anticapdiscuss] fwd: antiwar demo, Sat. March 14, noon
Time and Place Date:
Saturday, March 14, 2009
Time:
12:00pm - 4:00pm
Location:
Pilsen/Little Village
Street:
Marshall & Cermack (Marshall is near California, ca. 2830 W.)
City/Town:
Chicago, IL
Description
On the 6th Anniversary of the US Invasion of Iraq
End the Occupations Now!
Iraq - Afghanistan - Palestine
While we face the worst economic crisis since the Great Depression, our government is handing cash to bankers at home and pouring our tax dollars -- a trillion-plus and counting -- into foreign wars that murder, maim and violate people's right to decide their own future.
The reality is that there is no "good" war – in Iraq, Afghanistan, Pakistan or Iran. Our arms to Israel make their war OUR war, as well.
Decades of U.S. policies have imposed unequal trade agreements on immigrants' home countries that destroy local economies -- forcing people to move here to seek the living wages they can no longer earn at home. The new administration has continued Bush regime policy toward immigrant workers, and is using the economic meltdown as a tool to recruit more immigrant, minority, and poor youth to fight rich men's wars for oil and power.
Please join us for a united Chicagoland march to oppose continuing U.S. wars abroad and war on immigrants at home:
Saturday, March 14, 2009 12 noon SHARP
Aassemble for a short rally, followed by a march.
Marshall Boulevard & Cermak Road
(2 blocks from the "California" stop on the Pink Line "el")
For more info, visit our website at:
[ http://www.chicagomassaction.org/index.html ]
Download posters, flyers and quarter page pluggers in Spanish, English, Arabic and Polish here:
[ http://www.chicagomassaction.org/06-flyers.html ]
Check out the latest M14 video announcements on You Tube: Post your own!
[http://chicago.indymedia.org/newswir...5849/index.php ]
And join us again the following weekend, March 21, in Washington, DC for a national march on the Pentagon! For more info, including bus transportation to DC:
[ http://www.pephost.org/site/PageServ...e=M21_homepage ]
[ http://www.chicagoanswer.net/ ]
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" Commerce is at a standstill, the markets are glutted, products accumulate, as multitudinous as they are unsaleable, hard cash disappears, credit vanishes, factories are closed, the mass of the workers are in want of the means of subsistence, because they have produced too much of the means of subsistence; bankruptcy follows upon bankruptcy, execution upon execution. The stagnation lasts for years; productive forces and products are wasted and destroyed wholesale, until the accumulated mass of commodities finally filter off, more or less depreciated in value, until production and exchange gradually begin to move again.
Little by little the pace quickens. It becomes a trot. The industrial trot breaks into a canter, the canter in turn grows into the headlong gallop of a perfect steeplechase of industry, commercial credit and speculation, which finally, after breakneck leaps, ends where it began--in the ditch of a crisis... The fact that the socialised organisation of production within the factory has developed so far that it has become incompatible with the anarchy of production in society... The whole mechanism of the capitalist mode of production breaks down under the pressure of the productive forces, its own creations.
It is no longer able to turn all this mass of means of production into capital. They lie fallow, and for that very reason the industrial reserve army must also lie fallow. Means of production, means of subsistence, available labourers, all the elements of production and of general wealth, are present in abundance... For in capitalistic society the means of production can only function when they have undergone a preliminary transformation into capital, into the means of exploiting human labour power." (Arguing for working class socialism)
Frederick Engels's--- Socialism: Utopian and Scientific/ part of Anti Dühring/ New York: International Publishers, 1935, pages 64-65
