World Crisis, Class Struggle and 1984 Andre Gunder Frank WE are in a crisis and unless the class struggle goes our way, we are heading straight for 1984, the real 1984, much closer and much more real than that of Orwell. We have a lot of evidence and manifestations that there is a crisis: Watergate, the mis-called energy crisis, the financial crisis, the change from bipolarity to multi- polarity in Kissinger's world, and so on. I suggest that these are only the manifestations and that what is at the bottom of the crisis is that we are again in a major crisis of accumulation, which capitalist development has always witnessed. In order not to go back into history too far here