Shadow Or Substance [!] Socialism Or Indiviualism?Alba Company, 1922 - 76 páginas |
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Página 93 - Hohenzollern regime, the railroads, railroad construction and repair shops and other vestige of state socialism, and brought about the unwilling conversion of the socialists themselves. It is perfectly evident, therefore, that whatever evils we may complain of in our existing institutions, we cannot hope to make conditions any better by forcibly destroying the institution of private property. The Steady Growth of Co-operation. But, on the other hand, we must...
Página 56 - Capital is kept in existence from age to age not by preservation, but by perpetual reproduction: every part of it is used and destroyed, generally very soon after it is produced, but those who consume it are employed meanwhile in producing more.
Página 63 - States, published by the National Bureau of Economic Research at $5, which is a carefully prepared history.
Página 95 - ... in a corrupt democracy the tendency is always to give power to the worst. Honesty and patriotism are weighted, and unscrupulousness commands success. The best gravitate to the bottom, the worst float to the top, and the vile will only be ousted by the viler.
Página 40 - ... judicial, military, bureaucratic, administrative, municipal, etc., even the individual exile or internment of the most stubborn and dangerous exploiters, the establishment of a strict control over them for the repression of all inevitable attempts at resistance and restoration of capitalist slavery — only such measures will be able to guarantee the complete submission of the whole class of exploiters.
Página 40 - ... of the bourgeois nature of all reformism, all defense of "democracy," with the preservation of the right to the ownership of the means of production ; not only the denunciation of such tendencies, which in practice mean the defense of the bourgeoisie inside the Labor movement — but it demands also the replacing of the old leaders by Communists in all kinds of proletarian organizations, not only political, but industrial, co-operative, educational, etc. The more lasting, complete, and solid...
Página 42 - The revolutionary proletariat must proceed to an immediate and unconditional confiscation of the estates of the landowners and big landlords, that is, of all those who systematically employ wage labor, directly or through their tenants, who exploit all the small (and not infrequently also the middle) peasantry in their neighborhood, and who do not do any actual manual work. To this element belong the majority of the descendants...
Página 42 - No one but the city industrial proletariat, led by the communist party, can save the laboring masses in the country from the pressure of capitalism and landlordism.
Página 39 - POWER 2. The victory of Socialism over Capitalism — as the first step to Communism — demands the accomplishment of the three following tasks by the proletariat, as the only really revolutionary class: The first task is to lay low the exploiters, and above all the bourgeoisie as their chief economic and political representative; to defeat them completely; to crush their resistance; to render impossible any attempts...
Página 29 - ... them. He will find, on a single page, almost as many mistakes and misstatements as there are lines ; all proceeding from the first false assumption, taken up without investigation, that all the servitude in the Old Testament was slavery, and that, wherever the word servant occurs, it means slave. These statements have been repeated so often, that they have come to be regarded as truisms, and, by possession and reiteration, are in many minds impregnable. The implicit statement Mr. Trench might...