Henryk Grossman 1881-1950

“What was the year 1929 in the USA and the year 1931 in Germany and England if not a giant breakdown? The working class was not prepared for this. It did not have a Lenin, who awaited and worked towards such a moment. Rather, for decades it heard from Hilferding and Helene Bauer that a breakdown was impossible. Only such a disorientation of the working class made it possible for the ruling class to overcome the panic and to survive the breakdown.”

– Henryk Grossman

     During his life Henryk Grossman was part of a political party starting in high school where he joined the Polish Social Democratic Party(PPSD).  Henryk believed in the working class all of his life and he said that when the depression of America or Germany came it was the working class that broke down and created these depressions.  He says that the ruling class was only able to overcome the depression because of the great breakdown by the working class.  He believed that the working class was the driving force behind the economy of a country.

     I agree with many of what Grossman said, I believe that the working class is the driving force behind an economy.  However I don't think that the working class was the only reason why merica and Germany got out of their depressions.  I believe that it takes all class' to work together and properly in order to make any economy get out of such great breakdowns.  I think Grossman feels that there was no proper leader of the working class, and it is because of this that the class failed which according to him lead to the breakdown.