Personally I believe we are on a one-way ticket to revolutionary conditions. But not for the first time - we had those in the 60s, the 30s, the 10s, the 1880s, and the 1860s. The working masses won major victories in most of those as their rage exploded outward at the ruling class, but no vanguard party was ever able to complete the process and activate a true revolution, so they go down in history merely as tumultuous times. We must work diligently not to let this opportunity slip us by and our window of opportunity close for a few more decades.