The Tax on the Proletariat

I think in this text, Ingalls frequently, it sounds like he's not talking about the proletariat as the revolutionary force. And if we were to make a crude reading of this text, one might almost get the sense that capitalism is necessarily deterministically going away absent any individual revolutionary strategy. I'm kind of reminded of the analytical Marxist tradition and this particular theorist Cohen, who argues that the Marxist theory of history isn't so much a theory of class struggle, but a theory of productive forces developing over time.