I have not read the book, but I did read this review. The book seems to emphasize the complacency and lack of self-love the author views as the source of the internal conflict. We should not seek such a subjective source for the antagonism we feel.

As Lenin wrote, “‘Think of production!’ says the well-fed bourgeoisie to the starving and exhausted workers. And Kautsky, repeating the capitalists’ refrain in the guise of ‘economic science’, becomes completely a lackey of the bourgeoisie.”

In the same sense, we need to forgive the oppressed workers who cannot fight on and produce acts of resistance or those revolutionaries who cannot produce the intellectual labor and political analysis required by the cause. This lack of self love or complacency does not arise from any willful act. The class conflict intentionally induces these prolonged states of mind that harm the cause but save the atomized individual. This further assists the “lackey of the bourgeoisie” in stating his case: blame this state of mind on the revolutionaries themselves.