what such amendments to marx really meant in class terms need not be stated it is self-evident
passing to political economy it must be noted first of all that in this sphere the amendment of the revisionists were much more comprehensive and circumstantial attempts were made to in fluence the public by new data on economic development it was said that concentration and the ousting of small-scale production by large-scale production do not occur in agriculture at all while they proceed very slowly in commerce and industry. it was said that crises had now become rarer and weaker and that cartels and trusts woulds probably enable capital to eliminate them altogether. it was said that the theory of collapse to which capitalism is heading was unsound owing to the tendency of class antagonisms to become milder and less acute. it was said finally that it would not be amiss to correct marx's theory of value too