Abstract
Karl Marx expected nineteenth-century workers to organize collectively and combat the evils of capitalism, eventually overthrowing the entire system. While history proves that this expectation was factually unwarranted, some collective action theorists have concluded that it was logically unjustified as well and that the theory on which it was based was logically inconsistent. In this article I examine Marx's position and contend that the charge of logical inconsistency is unfounded. Marx in fact suggests a number of interrelated arguments that justify, logically speaking, his expectation of revolutionary collective action and that serve at the same time to identify a set of empirical conditions under which revolutionary and similar social movements may well occur.
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