historical forces swirling spiraling blindly inevitably advancing toward the end of history when scarcity is gone each taking according to need each giving according to ability and best of all the struggle swirling spiraling happens through us but not by us and when things go wrong it's just the dialectic so if it seems bleak trust that one day the antithesis will emerge and counter-revolution will be engulfed by revolution and so on until the final inevitable conflict after which things will be better forever unless the planet burns up first but if it does at least it's not our fault blame history