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The reality is that no, capitalism will not simply 'collapse by itself'. No, we cannot simply wait passively for capitalism to kill itself for us to simply pick up the pieces and build socialism with no struggle. Capitalism will continue to expand and grow and trample over the entirety of planet Earth and beyond if we simply lie down and wait for a magical 'collapse' that won't happen.
Workers of the world, unite!

The theories of Grossman gain popularity because they sound similar enough to what the communists say while also being something many workers want to hear, but all while being fundamentally wrong and based on misquotations of Marx.

Grossman continues in his misquoting, miscalculations of Marx to justify his 'final collapse' nonsense.

Some believe the proletariat need not do anything to bring about the collapse of capitalism because it will naturally self-collapse and implode by running out of steam, but this is clearly nonsense as all these calculations assume either a closed system, or simply ignore many factors.

By virtue of its backwardness, the revolution in Russia cannot progress beyond the not-so 'transnational' stage, but once the revolution breaks out or spreads to an advanced industrial nation, then it will advance - it must advance - further and break out of the ossifying transitional stage onto communism.

Afterword

Soviet Russia is forced - by the destruction of its industrial base at the hands of the reactionary whites - to seek a modus vivendi with the Western imperialist powers and to trade with them for the machinery the nascent soviet state needs
This also means it seeks to support only those western European communists that advance this agenda and nothing less or more, and so it supports only collaborationists.

The Great Russian Revolution can be understood as the first of many Asian rebellions against their domination and enslavement by European imperialist capital, and we hope China and India follow suit in a continuous wave of revolt that will consume the entire world including the heart of imperialist capital, London and Washington.

A revolution cannot remain stagnant, it must reform and reorganize itself again and again to overcome and defeat the reactionary bourgeoisie and the opportunistic imperialists.

Like the Ebert regime in Germany, also in the UK any would-be Labourite government would be a bourgeois government with a proletarian language done to confuse the proletarian masses and so slow, halt, and reverse any revolutionary and communist agitation.

Revolution cannot be done in any stagnant or central organisation, the proletariat needs a dynamic and organic organisation that adapts and responds to the ever-changing environment of revolution.