Proposed Roads to Freedom: Socialism, Anarchism and SyndicalismH. Holt, 1919 - 218 pages |
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... remain very near to Manchesterism : the orthodox political economy of his youth was accepted by him on many points on which it is now known to be wrong . According to Sorel , the really essential thing in Marx's teaching is the class ...
... remain very near to Manchesterism : the orthodox political economy of his youth was accepted by him on many points on which it is now known to be wrong . According to Sorel , the really essential thing in Marx's teaching is the class ...
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... remains to - day not more advanced but incomparably more learned than I am . I knew then nothing of political economy . I had not yet rid myself of metaphysical abstractions , and my Socialism was only instinctive . He , though younger ...
... remains to - day not more advanced but incomparably more learned than I am . I knew then nothing of political economy . I had not yet rid myself of metaphysical abstractions , and my Socialism was only instinctive . He , though younger ...
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... remains still at present , the divine sanction of brutal force and triumphant inequality . The State is authority ; it is force ; it is the ostenta- tion and infatuation of force : it does not insinuate itself ; it does not seek to ...
... remains still at present , the divine sanction of brutal force and triumphant inequality . The State is authority ; it is force ; it is the ostenta- tion and infatuation of force : it does not insinuate itself ; it does not seek to ...
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... remains a fact that Anar- chism attracts to itself much that lies on the border- land of insanity and common crime.1 This must be 1 The attitude of all the better Anarchists is that expressed by L. S. Bevington in the words : “ Of ...
... remains a fact that Anar- chism attracts to itself much that lies on the border- land of insanity and common crime.1 This must be 1 The attitude of all the better Anarchists is that expressed by L. S. Bevington in the words : “ Of ...
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... remain intact at the end of the war , and everything that we shall say is to be taken as applying only to the years before the war . It may be that French Syndicalism as a distinctive movement will be dead , but even in that case it ...
... remain intact at the end of the war , and everything that we shall say is to be taken as applying only to the years before the war . It may be that French Syndicalism as a distinctive movement will be dead , but even in that case it ...
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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.