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practical problems with this implementation, we think there are
problems because we look at this history of revolution and we see
a history of failure, if consciousness were enough then the
revolution would have happened a century ago when many
millions were 'socialists', at the moment, it could be argued, only a
tiny minority has the this consciousness. If the revolution must be
initiated by the participation of the working class, then the absence
of their socialist consciousness is cause for comment.

We, on the contrary (based on our tiny experiences and our
readings of the histories of these failed revolutions, think it likely
that the revolution will spread like insects caught in the wind, we
think that many people involved will not know what they are doing
beyond the practical task at hand which will be an impulse to take
power, to take control of their immediate working environment; it is
likely that there will be many causes and ideas running though
people's heads at this moment, reformists political, religious fervor,
trade unionist, this revolutionary party, that revolutionary tendency,
revengist against their boss or society, whatever. As the working
class takes power there will be any number of ideas appearing in
their heads an these will be echoes of the capitalist form, many of
these ideas will be seriously discussed and will seem to have the
utmost urgency but as soon as occupation of the factories is fully
secured then a new material base will begin to configure and at
the point new ideas, the ideas appropriate to collective ownership
and collective dictatorship over events will begin to form. What
matters is the event itself, the seizure of production, and not the
ideas that motivates it, because the act itself, if it is on sufficient
scale, will collapse capital and from that moment other forces take
hold.