I grew up in Cracow and in a little town half-way between Cracow and Auschwitz, on a tip of land wedged between the frontiers of three empires. My own childhood and adolescence was shaken by it again and again. This was the overwhelming fact of our existence. The old social order was crumbling before our very eyes. To us the Marxist forecast of the collapse of capitalism was not an apocalyptic vision related only remotely to the realities of our daily life. The conditions in which a young Polish intellectual studied Das Kapital in the 1920’s or 1930’s were very different from those prevailing in most countries in the West. Isaac Deutscher is the author of distinguished biographies of Stalin and Trotsky, and at the time of his death at the age of 60 last August he was working on a biography of Lenin.” -The Editors Sweezy wrote: “This is the text of a talk given last summer on the BBC’s Third Programme. In the original editors’ note to this article, 50 years ago Leo Huberman and Paul M. We are making it available here on the occasions of the 150 th anniversary of Capital. This talk by Issac Deutscher was originally published in Monthly Review on December 1967 to commemorate the 100 th anniversary of Karl Marx’s Capital.
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