Proposed Roads to Freedom: Socialism, Anarchism and SyndicalismH. Holt, 1919 - 218 pages |
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... it is not bitterness or hate , but love , that is their mainspring . It is difficult not to hate those who torture the objects of our love . Though difficult , it is not impossible ; but it requires a breadth of INTRODUCTION xvii.
... it is not bitterness or hate , but love , that is their mainspring . It is difficult not to hate those who torture the objects of our love . Though difficult , it is not impossible ; but it requires a breadth of INTRODUCTION xvii.
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... object to the whole parliamentary machinery , and aim at a different method of regulating the poli- tical affairs of the community . But all alike are democratic in the sense that they aim at abolishing every kind of privilege and every ...
... object to the whole parliamentary machinery , and aim at a different method of regulating the poli- tical affairs of the community . But all alike are democratic in the sense that they aim at abolishing every kind of privilege and every ...
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... object to such institutions as the police and the criminal law , by means of which the will of one part of the community is forced upon another part . In their view , the democratic form of government is not very enormously preferable ...
... object to such institutions as the police and the criminal law , by means of which the will of one part of the community is forced upon another part . In their view , the democratic form of government is not very enormously preferable ...
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... object to on moral grounds . A form which has been adopted on railways , particularly in Italian strikes , is that of obeying all rules literally and exactly , in such a way as to make the running of trains prac- tically impossible ...
... object to on moral grounds . A form which has been adopted on railways , particularly in Italian strikes , is that of obeying all rules literally and exactly , in such a way as to make the running of trains prac- tically impossible ...
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... objects , are regarded as rehearsals , as a means of perfecting organization and promoting enthusiasm , but even when they are victorious so far as concerns the specific point in dispute , they are not regarded by Syndicalists as ...
... objects , are regarded as rehearsals , as a means of perfecting organization and promoting enthusiasm , but even when they are victorious so far as concerns the specific point in dispute , they are not regarded by Syndicalists as ...
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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.