the position of revisionism was even worse as regards the theory of crises and the theory of capitalism collapse. only for a very short time could people and then only the most short-sighted think of refashioning the foundations of marx's theory under the influence of a few years of industrial boom and prosperity. realities very soon made it clear to the revisionists that crises were not a thing of the past prosperity was followed by crisis. the forms the sequence the picture of particular crises changed but crises remained an inevitable component of the capitalist system.