Proposed Roads to Freedom: Socialism, Anarchism and SyndicalismH. Holt, 1919 - 218 pages |
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... natural . And among leaders , ambition , which they mortify in their choice of a career , is sure to return in a new form : in the desire for intellectual mastery and for despotic power within their own sect . From these causes it ...
... natural . And among leaders , ambition , which they mortify in their choice of a career , is sure to return in a new form : in the desire for intellectual mastery and for despotic power within their own sect . From these causes it ...
Page xv
... nature's inherent capacity for a good life , they are so con- scious of the cruelty and oppression resulting from existing institutions that they make a wholly mis- leading impression of cynicism . Most men have instinctively two ...
... nature's inherent capacity for a good life , they are so con- scious of the cruelty and oppression resulting from existing institutions that they make a wholly mis- leading impression of cynicism . Most men have instinctively two ...
Page xvi
... nature comes to the fore . The opponents of capitalism have learned , through the study of certain historical facts , that this ferocity has often been shown by the capitalists and by the State toward the wage - earning classes ...
... nature comes to the fore . The opponents of capitalism have learned , through the study of certain historical facts , that this ferocity has often been shown by the capitalists and by the State toward the wage - earning classes ...
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... nature becomes more clear , the opposition of bourgeoisie and proletariat becomes more and more marked . The two classes , since they have antagonistic interests , are forced into a class war which generates within the capitalist régime ...
... nature becomes more clear , the opposition of bourgeoisie and proletariat becomes more and more marked . The two classes , since they have antagonistic interests , are forced into a class war which generates within the capitalist régime ...
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... nature , each brought up to illustrate some fatalistic theory which Marx professes to have proved by exact reasoning , cannot but stir into fury any passionate working - class reader , and into unbearable shame any possessor of capital ...
... nature , each brought up to illustrate some fatalistic theory which Marx professes to have proved by exact reasoning , cannot but stir into fury any passionate working - class reader , and into unbearable shame any possessor of capital ...
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Page 10 - Our epoch, the epoch of the bourgeoisie, possesses, however, this distinctive feature; it has simplified the class antagonisms. Society as a whole is more and more splitting up into two great hostile camps, into two great classes directly facing each other: Bourgeoisie and Proletariat.
Page 11 - ... the work of the proletarians has lost all individual character, and, consequently, all charm for the workman. He becomes an appendage of the machine, and it is only the most simple, most monotonous, and most easily acquired knack that is required of him. Hence, the cost of production of a workman is restricted, almost entirely, to the means of subsistence that he requires for his maintenance, and for the propagation of his race.
Page 114 - In place of the old bourgeois society, with its classes and class antagonisms, we shall have an association, in which the free development of each is the condition for the free development of all.
Page 17 - The communists disdain to conceal their views and aims. They openly declare that their ends can be attained only by the forcible overthrow of all existing social conditions. Let the ruling classes tremble at a Communistic revolution. The proletarians have nothing to lose but their chains. They have a world to win. Working men of all countries, unite!
Page 114 - When, in the course of development, class distinctions have disappeared, and all production has been concentrated in the hands of a vast association of the whole nation, the public power will lose its political character.
Page 10 - A spectre is haunting Europe — the spectre of Communism. All the Powers of old Europe have entered into a holy alliance to exorcise this spectre: Pope and Czar, Metternich and Guizot, French Radicals and German police-spies.
Page 13 - ... everywhere reduces wages to the same low level. The growing competition among the bourgeois, and the resulting commercial crises, make the wages of the workers ever more fluctuating. The unceasing improvement of machinery, ever more rapidly developing, makes their livelihood more and more precarious; the collisions between individual workmen and individual bourgeois take more and more the character of collisions between two classes. Thereupon the workers begin to form combinations (Trades...
Page 16 - We have seen above that the first step in the revolution by the working class is to raise the proletariat to the position of ruling class, to win the battle for democracy.
Page 15 - In this sense the theory of the Communists may be summed up in the single sentence : Abolition of private property.
Page 24 - That which is now to be expropriated is no longer the labourer working for himself, but the capitalist exploiting many labourers. This expropriation is accomplished by the action of the immanent laws of capitalistic production itself, by the centralisation of capital.