This text is a manuscript written in 1939. Although almost finished it was not published at the time.

After Otto Rühle's death in 1943 the manuscript was part of his small personal leftings held by his daughter Grete Bach until 1971, when it was published in

Otto Rühle
Schriften
Perspektiven einer Revolution in hochindustrialisierten Ländern
(Herausgegeben von Gottfried Mergner)
Rowohlts Klassiker der Literatur under Wissenschaft
Rowohlts Taschenbuch Berlag 255/256/257
Reinbek bei Hamburg - Januar 1971
ISBN: 3 499 45255 3

In this publication prepared by Gottfried Mergner the text was slightly edited. Elements from the 'Synopsis' beginning the text were moved to the end to make the final "Ausblick" and some passages from the end of the actual manuscript were left out   -  according to Mergner  -  to avoid unnecessary repetitions.

In 1939 Otto Rühle had a shorter article on the same subject published in the journal Living Marxism, Vol. 4 No. 8 1939, edited and published by Paul Mattick:

The struggle against Fascism begins with the struggle against Bolshevism

This Internet-version was made by Kurasje on the basis of an e-version delivered by A.P.