Nonfiction. Socialism. Agitation. Illness. Translated from the German by Dr. W.D. Huber. With a preface by Jean-Paul Sartre. "It's a matter of fact that the economic and materialistic 'prosperity' of the working class from nowadays which is only a relative welfare in western industrial nations, resulting from the warfare between one class against the other, a welfare which has nothing to do with a 'just' portion of the working class in a 'natural' evolution, this matter of fact has been hidden more or less successfully by the agents of capitalism until nowadays. As we know from Marx there exists a historic necessity urging that from the contradictions of capitalism must result socialism. This necessity which constitutes an intrinsic factor in the inner of each person is illness, from which the subject suffers are the internal contradictions which alter consciousness and urge the suffering subject to act. The necessity is the need of each person, suffering in consciousness and sensuality."