MARXIAN SOCIALISM EIGHTY YEARS AFTER
Lee, Algernon
MARXIAN SOCIALISM EIGHTY YEARS AFTER Some Thoughts For Would be Revisionist Inspired By the Eightieth Anniversary of the Communist Manifesto By Algernon, Lee rnss publication of the...
...It began, s atm era, whose culmination has not yet ^rtved...
...The famous Rochaelct ftonnel weavers had started their small* enterprise to Toad lane, Rochdale, only a few years before and were just getctng stsrtsd...
...there was practically no cooperative stfsvsmesst...
...Both Thomas Jefferson sad *V"*wli* HsmtHnn, who did not agree en away things, agreed that the first amendment, which guarantees the right to speak rrsabV write freely, sad ef peaceable ¦assssabiy...
...It has been translated into practically every European language and Into several others...
...The Manifesto was a work of genius, but no mortal Is infallfljie, particularly when undertaking to forecast all directions of the bewildering course of social and political development...
...Man makes his own history...
...Hegelian dialectic was' rescued' from Its balfmjstlcal idealism, by its means the old static materialism was made dynamic and the Ricardian economic theories were carried to their legitimate conclusions, and thereby became such a damning indictment -of capitalism that the Morgans world became afraid of any and all theoretical thinking" in t"he" economic field aiu} has done none worth speaking of ever •sinbe...
...The working class can free Itself from economic independence only by abolishing (be private ownership in the means of common property and making them the comon property of society as a whole, thus doing away with all classes and removing all causes for class struggles...
...of the States-Genera1, and the teklof of the Bastille In 1789...
...It is we who need a stronger will' to understand...
...But then came "both the hour and the sian"—or the men, rather, for the work of Marx' and of Ehgels was as One through the whole forty'years of thenfriendship...
...These are the guiding thoughts of the Communist Manifesto: The ever changing forms of social organization in human society are not fashioned by arbitrary design, but are determined by the changing mode of wealth production...
...J For Modern Socialism had its precursors on the intellectual side as well as tin the field of actual struggle...
...Those of you who attended these cheery...
...It was at once *'critical amass of the great economic forces that were fcadliig to a cooperative world and a clarion call to the workers to realise their part In the bringing about of the coming dear and did more perhaps than any pronouncement ever Issued to mspke the workers to organise and dsawnat thee these who labor should enjoy «bb fruit bf Sbehiofl...
...Its battlefield was fixed In the industrial and political arena...
...Today the organisation of labor and the progress of Industry have wrought very oorsddoable changes The trend for- the moat part has been in the direction' pointed but' by' the brilliant young leaders -of the " YV'e to tot r> lea parMi panlj have a toag way lb go before W gala the bssgbls saewtoM by Marx aad gngsls We have a more nstaplhislid sHasltaa to meet than they perhaps iisMaia...
...Universal suffrage, parliamentary government and social legislation were things practically unknown...
...Modera Socialism, moreover, is that movement of the working class which' has known how to dispense both wl(h myth and with dogma, to look facts in the face, substitute thought and understanding for opinion and belief, to make'Intelligence the guide instead of the dupe and plaything of popular emotion...
...What these precursory movements .lacked was what of course could not come till there had been a certain mahiring of the capitalist mode of production and exchange—namely, an understanding of the nature of this system it'serf, and therewith of the nature of the industrial proletariat as distinguished from an other exploited classes, and an enlisting in the service of the workingclass movement of the new social sciences which the capitalist era had produced...
...1 ; '-¦' gripped, by their previous studies with an amazing knowledge of philosophy,, of history, and, economics, voluntarily committed to the clause* of the exploited and oppressed, they did the work "which the reuoluUonaxy moment of...
...however, by any group of *refuimesa' end least of all by the Anil BaiOofa -Isafga, that the first amendment, which is much older, esrssiniy more important, and #sV most as frequenUy violated, ought to be strengthened...
...PatrteUamnow means est the greatest seed tor the greatest number, hat mrT1aa*p*?b> pisy—flag day, navy day, oafasaw day...
...When we use the word "scientific" in this connection, it is not because we wish to plume ourselves on our booklearning, but because the word correctly describes the movement in its theoretical aspect...
...No one who Is fsanfUar with the work of Marx and Engels can study the soctologicaTand bJrtaWcaa iterators ef ens met Batty rears without very frequently fladtog X*& ideas woven tato~ tt^rflea at a rmrhTatoa fma, indeed,;'or attswrfeeUy aa> llCl'lvoots, Otk XthC vtavooaav'' aetx^owaffaatngy K -to the right oaveation...
...They were not to form separate parties opposed to other working class parties...
...It bee taken longer than Kant and Enge!* VeSBxed to bring about the day of the 'wdrkers- emancipaHcn They thought that perhaps the" revolution then Imnwhewt and whkh for awhile engulfed a part of Europe, would prove the herald of the coming day.' In this they were doomed- to disappointment...
...Next week, be will tefl of BalaiNutosT'w part fn the 2fln»erwasd peace movement her re tare to Russia after Hie Botehevtfc revolution, giving snake" latereathag sidelights ea Leaua, Trotaky and ZMtfaaW...
...But ft is trite also in a less obvious'way...
...In this struggle the workers have the tdvantage of being steadily increased n number, consolidated and organized by orces inseparable from the process of capitalist development...
...pROM time to time we are sail lastly adjured to revise oar Marrism Such a proposal is always to order...
...Moreover, I behsve that fas first amendment can be enforced without trouble if a law M passed for its enforce...
...except through the book in which Sngels replied to him* Marxism, so far from being destroyed or discredited, exerts ah ever wider and deeper Influence.' This is obvious when we consider''the Irresistible ' growth of the Socialist movement, to which Marxism is as soul to the body...
...The ltth amerdbnerit sesbriets human liberty, while the first extends it...
...American buatness men today wersMp Iflatoiiriil who brags that he wipes ha feet on liberty, and who only last east wiped tii" ti list tisMus nf democracy m'Ttely...
...Their principal methods were propaganda and "demonstration" by social experiment...
...Methods of combat may have been rendered inefficacious...
...They combat ted the social system of thelr day as "unjust" or "irrational...
...They had their heroes and martyrs, their prophets and almost their saints...
...If the outcry against Marxian "orthodoxy" shall bring about a renewal of Marxian studies It will have served a useful purpose...
...The document did not pretend to be anything more than the political program of a small organization, which never attained to a degree df practical importance and a few years later entirely disappeared...
...Wtth the progressiva <y^fwiM 1 silialhill of the principal countries of Europe both became warm supporters of Socialist parliamentary actionOnly persons devoid of Judgment and hxisiajBsstfcm or uncritical fanatics like our nec-Communkda can attempt in 1s28 a literal Interpretation and spoUcation of a program formulated in 1848...
...Prase's artbfe wU be completed fit two ' snare nkatjatnients...
...In that of the early labor unions, vacillating between too distant and too petty an aim, and between the political and the industrial method of action, with occasional lapses into rioting and machinesmashing...
...Its program and methods were established...
...The evils of capitalist society appeared to them primarily as aberrations from the eternal path of righteousness, which only had to be persuasively pointed out in order to be corrected...
...But by ft48 all these were either dead or Obviously dying—all except Trade Union - tan, which in Great Britain was Just tattling down to a long period of soulless practicality, while on the Continent it was hardly yet born...
...He needs no apologists...
...vft,t^ri^m\ forecasts \t Marx and Engels may have gone wrong...
...The Communist Manifesto is the first definite formulation of the nature, aims and struggles of the modern Socialist movement...
...was the most Important part of the consutntion...
...To - say that Marx .and Engels used these materials, 'and used them in accordance with the needs and possibilities of their time, detracts no whit from the originality at thejr contribution both to social -science and to, the worktog-class movement...
...March 4, T pm...
...Norman Thomas will speak on ¦"A Socialist Program for l»2g...
...Then- object was the overthrow of bourgeois supremacy, the conquest of power by the proletariat...
...The Communist Manifesto established the Socialist movement on a realistic basis and revealed its historic sanction and mission...
...The history of our time is shaped by the Struggles between the tourgeoisie and the proletariat as all ecorded history in the past has been ine of class struggles...
...Its authors were two young emigrants named Karl Marx and Priedrtch Engels...
...which new soeans that children sweat salute the nag and write essay* about the eorsswiatibn...
...But what gives the work its undying value as a source of inspiration and Instrument of propaganda for the Socialist movement of the whole world is not only the lucidity of its reasoning but also its brilliance of style, its fire and eloquence...
...Another was the narrow but within its...
...It is a challenge, a ringing and defiant" challenge of the adolescent and rebellious proletariat" to a . triumphant capitalism, a declaration of war to the hitter end "The Ciwamanlsls glsaata to conceal theb- views and atoaa...
...limite precise economies -of Adam Smith and David Ricardp: A third was the Intellectually bold critical philosophy of the Germans^ from Kant, whom Heine calls the German Robespierre, -to Kegel, whose dialectical method of thinking anticipated the- evolution of Darwin and Huxley...
...pRENCH materialism had served the bourgeoisie while it was still a revolutionary class...
...Mark Stephen, treasurer...
...They find fauR wtth'tas baaauri Oomimmist* not beeadSB of tasw msshoda, or because a Steal sMaasehy rales to Roasts, but beaaos* they<wa*eted ihe secred right* of prlvete ptepsrty-.•¦ * "Of course, there Is much Bp servtos paid to Americuaam...
...a' In M«fl the mass of workers ware IV literate and the sHsiaicae On aocaahsm and labor wa* taboo to ttsst tibia*, today the mam edoxatisu c* wor±er, has pown apace and the Socialist mc/vsmant baa * contributed to literature many of the most brilliant writers of modern ' In 18U, as Engels pointed out to his 'Condition of the Working Clam in Englaad to 1844," stark misery was the lot it practically all of the workers...
...Bat we aaaat de ear swrc-— BergerMovei To Enforce Constitution WASHINGTON.—A bill to pet teeth...
...It has circulated in millions of copies...
...Marx and Engels were the first to recognize this truth, which was an organic part of their dialectic philosophy...
...They evenly declare that their ends Can be attained etdy by- the serefbse evertfcrow ef aB existing social CSSSlsUeas '¦«««¦ Jb* - rshag class . tremble gl a Coawxaaistle n lasalimi The wrest tarlans bare nothing to lose bat the*chains...
...H. Jong, Switzerland...
...Bui if the JCVarfffWirgd Manifesto baa heroes* obsolete to sosne derails of theory and liasjSilhwMa to many potnta of method and tacok * It tir* h>tt Its general principles, as its authors asserted in 1873, remain "on the whole, as correct today as ever...
...for Belgium...
...The technical terms first employed in it have become household words to millions in all lands and in all stations of life...
...What accounts for the phenomenal vitality of the little booklet...
...John Roach Straton thinks be » "making a monkey of Darwin''—end lacks diuy the e*t of seeing himself as .others see http to fealise now vividly hjs Bhutan sense or humor fljustrates the theory of atavistic survivals...
...But their philosophies and programs...
...In 1848, when M*rx and mtdea wrote, the trade anion movement was weak and to many parts of Sarope nonexistent or regatded a* altagether -illegal...
...Worktogmen ef all countries waste...
...To live is to change...
...no science and no philosophy...
...Marx can take care of himself...
...As for us humans...
...It had interesting and not unimportant forerunners, within the half-century that had elapsed since the French Revolution, and it assimilated something of the material which they provided, adding a something else which each of them lacked What they lacked was not sincerity, generous Idealism, courage, or moral fervor...
...If it were, it would not be Marxian...
...There were Socialist movements before the Communist League and there were Socialist programs before the Communist Manifesto...
...how many historic workinguass battles have been fought and won urith this inspiring slogan 1 When the Manifesto was written Its luthors were young...
...t, Manifesto", Just eighty years agp, ¦ oo, of the most distinctly epoch-mark' a* events in world history...
...to take care of the needs of taw workers, to the great eeanesale crises that were the outcome of the mode of production, and of the increasing strength of the workers, who would at last serve as the grave diggers of capitalism...
...The reaction that WBowed the itefset of the revehitioh of 184* was a lover sad dUeosangtar one...
...wp sijjrraQflri system ban be...
...Writing only twenty-foar years after the first publication of the Manifesto they uphold only "the general principles" embodied in the document...
...Brtish economics seemed to prove that, capitalism once in the lartfBa, everything-was for the best to...
...It was published in German...
...Labor had as yet...
...Isolated statements and theories may have proved erroneous...
...Ohiy, the revisers must be mtelfeetoeuy honest to start with, they must know what it to they are dealing wKhL If they prepare them selves for then* task by setting aside the smart perversions and tabloid popularisations, go back to the sources, and open-mindedly examine what they purpose to censer, many' of them Wfll be astonished to learn that Marx and Engels were themselves thoroughgoing revisionists, that the very essence df Marxism—more feportant than the so-called doctrines of value and smphisvatue and capitalist accumulation—is a method of thinking which' provides this whole theoretical system with the means and the urge to its own continuous revision from within...
...In a "statement Representstfre Bergar mid: , "T1' "Putting tssth into the lSth amendment has become a favorite phrase with the Anti-Saloon league and Hi swiasas in pubhc office since the amriirtiimtit was adopted, at haa never been suggssssd...
...Anthony Zabriaki, Poland...
...Interpretation and application of the Manifesto...
...This is to certify that Frederick Engels was admitted a member of the above association, etc...
...Ba4rtabagb Cbe ssareh ef aha wsearss amy be retarded, tt eaaaat be atspweB, aad kef are saany years we may eesafdeadlatty eawset that the warksrs kate toe -watt kegto to' vespoai to jfce east sf the werid ¦arte,"—end watt be Hi sat atarcktogalrreast ef the eibsr great mwaisti ef the werid toward the aa»sattal...
...We bare not as yet developed tat* a Socialist society In any portion of the earth.- • How great, however, baa beau the developmcnt ef evens* ar^tbs last sight decades...
...Thsre was scarcely a labor party to exist eitos...
...while she leth emeadmeet sennet sad will not be enforced, i ^TJnfortttnateiy, human liberty...
...They nave a warts to wm...
...There were hardly any methods for the accomplishment of radical political and economic changes except violent revolutions There was very little in the prevailing social order Worth preserving...
...But while the victory of every new slass in the past has entailed the subluxation of another class, the victory of ibe modern working class most inevitably result hi the emancipation of human society as a whole...
...It pointed to the growth of the world market, to the concentration of industry, to the inability of ~pu-y...
...How many times m the last eighty rears have these closing words of the Sdanlfesto electrified working-class assemblies from one end of the world to he other...
...Modern Socialism is at bottom a movement of the proletariat or wage-working class—the one class...
...Marxism, lflcf fry y otiicr gexxuSoc Bctcul&c tsfiSmW ripttL Csui ttjkxxvA * cootlnuous ravtattmi...
...aamlaBst...
...In' their thougjat-life those three intellectual systems were merged and transmuted Into something greater than themselves...
...JteUanbga wax.almost at much aft Lutherkriism a state reunion for dynastic Prussia...
...sprang from nebulous ethical concepts...
...Bernard!, Cor...
...But the allimportant fundamentals of the Marxian philosophy, the economic bask) of polltics and history, the Class struggle as the vehicle of social progress and the faith to the working-class as the instrument of human emancipation, have remained unshaken...
...Karl Marx, aged 30, a youna Doctor of Fhflosophy from the University of Jena, and Frtedrlch Xngeta, bWfnsss man, aged ST, issued to the working people of Europe a Manifesto destined to mark the beginning of a hew epoch m the Uvea of the workers of the world...
...II - TP-W that Modern Socialism began in 1848 a not to say, of course, that it was just then created out of nothing...
...The character of the modern Socialist movement wa sthus indelibly stamped as a labor movement...
...violation* of the first' amendment are made punishable by two years' lmprtaostment, or a fine of SA.OOO...
...Democracy today means Jobs for Migj I ing DeraocraU...
...Yet if any additional demonstration of the soundness of the Marxian doctrine was required, it was precisely the world wax that furnished that proof...
...lbs workers were vfrtnaay -dWrastiaasit Tears later Gladstone declared that1 net one out of five fcunirM workers to Great Britain ware privflegsd to vote...
...France...
...They bad no Interest separate and apart "from the working class as a whole.' They did not set up any sectarian principles of their own by which to shape and mold the proletariat as a whole...
...in the first amendment to the constitution by passing an enforcement it* ha* been tatrodueed to the Bona* by fjapreaentative Tic tor L. Berger...
...J. George Eecarms, Secretary to General Cannes...
...Its pronouncements are now known wherever workers read...
...Much that is admirable, much ' that is inspiring, and very much that is Instructive is to be found in the history of that oonsplrative under-dog communism which we know best in connection with the 'Same of Gracchus Babeuf, but which kept Up a furtive existence long after his time...
...Volumes have been written in comment, amplification...
...this, ire, may reasonably infer that it is too strong' for fcopest attack, At any rate, li Is significant that, numerous as have been the attempt* to refute slant by serious sjgu^nent, none of (hem has had more, than a momentary effect...
...MABXJAft SOCIALISM By Harry V. JUWJer author, "The Hlttory of socialist T^ouabt" EIGHTY years ago—wttfcO Thomas A. SdlaoB was just calsfaratlng ma first birthday, two brilliant young eaWJasMcs of Burope'a rebel tnteUlgsnwaa, Or...
...It is no empty boast when we- designate as Scientific Socialism the movement whose main features Karl Marx and Frederick Engels sketched eighty years sgp, and whose subsequent history has In all essentials followed the lines they foresaw...
...Marxism as a simple social theory undiluted by nebulous revisionism and unmared by scholastic commentaries or absurd literal interpretation...
...or both...
...It answered charges hurled against the revolutionist of its day...
...Socialist Prograip For 1928" Will Be Thomas'Phila topic (By a New Leader Correspeadeat) Philadelphia.—North Carolina Branch Socialist Party, will give a Comradeship Dinner at the Stephen Guard Hotel, 3027 Chestnut street, Sunday evening...
...Dependence in modern sdciety is primarily economic...
...The eventual triomph of their cause is thus assured by .he infallible economic laws of history...
...It described the rise of the modern capitalist class and pronounced this class a great revolutionising force in the Bfe of the day...
...THE LIVING FORCE OF MARXISM "The Fundamentals of Marx Remain Unshaken" By Morris Hillquit international > secretary of the socialist party f N THE spring of 1848 there appeared in London a pamphlet entitled "Manifesto of the Communist Party...
...and what a most characteristic of Marxism a not any 'of the conclusions it comes to, but the Hve and life-giving method by which it arrives at them...
...One of I these was the somewhat naive material - ism of Diderot and Holboch, Helvetius and dAlernbert...
...And yet no book, not even the Bible, has so profoundly Influence* -the coarse of history as has this pamphlet during the eighty years since its obscure birth...
...sasBBt [more to Amirtoans m the lath ant Uth dhy...
...Informal suppers of North Philadelphia Branch last year, will not need any urging to get their tickets for this one on March 4. North Philadelphia, with (he cooperation of Local Philadelphia Socialist Party, is endeavoring' to have all groups meet in friendly, intimate dinners...
...in that of the various schools •r Utopian* Socialism, represented wy Saint-Simon, by Fourier, by Cabet, and by Robert Owen, and the equally Utopian Anarchism of Godwin and Shelley...
...A Give the employed worker deals not condelined teaks Mke a safewar Jiwlssss sbs...
...Between the two classes there Is not a mere lack of mutual understanding and fair dealing, but an Inherent and ineradicable conflict of Interest which results in an unmterrupted struggle, open or hidden...
...set forth the program of the communists, which Included many Immediate measures that have since been attained, and criticised other groups in society thst failed to hold the socialist concept...
...It depleted history as a aeries of class struggles...
...price article next week "Behind the Scenes ef Two Dictatorships,'^ m. philips Price's engroeaJng story of Angelica BalabanoxTs later years 10 the revetuttonary movesneot of Italy and B^bssta, whs crowded oat Cask sveeat because of'the materbxt en ike analvexaarj of the Ceoamaniet Iftaalfeeto...
...to s* up a ridiculous parody of Marxism and then pomt oat bow rfdtctuou*' If fc...
...They advocated their plans of social reconstruction In the name of fairness and reason...
...Theologians nowadays are tocltaed to think that even the Almighty used some kind of pre-existent material that was floating around in formless chaos, and that in shaping it into an ordered universe, he observed some immutable laws of nature...
...Today various types of Tsbor gnvi riensaai have at one time or another during the "pest dneen years bam In office m most of the nhportarjt foenltjss wf Bumps from Great Britain to Russia...
...The modern system of production' Is the system of capitalism, which is characterised by the separation of the worker from his work tool...
...The explanation is to be found in two words—Labor and Science...
...who spoke pros* all his life without knowing that M was prose...
...he doe* not.make It out.of condJUons ctaaaen' byttni**: »W o*'iRu« sf TM im^'ckaWaynsglfc"''' tern without wet trying to understand It —and alas) some within our' ranks amuse tbemaelws wilh the same Xadje sport, ^'eaay...
...but he does oat him** it-oat at 0* whole earth...
...Whb reads "Bpehm-Bajrerk now, except "unfortunate college students, boning for an examination?' Who knows Duehring...
...Karl Marx, Germany...
...Which, from the very nature of the capitalist system of which It a a part, is bound to grow In numbers, in knowledge, incapacity for united action, and in sell-reliant and constructive revolt...
...Every trades-union has been asked to send delegates, as have the Workmen's Circle Branches and the Workmen's Sick and Death Benefit Societies...
...In many other details history has corrected the views "PTsiml to the Communist Manifesto, ft could not be otherwise...
...The Socialist theory of today Is not in every particular identical with that of Marx, any more than the biological theory of today is in every particular identical with' that of Charles Darwin...
...This subject which is the consideration of every serious thinking Socialist should hare the attention of everyone interested to working class political programs...
...MARXIAN SOCIALISM EIGHTY YEARS AFTER Some Thoughts For Would be Revisionist Inspired By the Eightieth Anniversary of the Communist Manifesto By Algernon, Lee rnss publication of the "Communis...
...And it is interesting to note that many of the writers, having got them ideas at second hand, are blissfully naccrartous of their ors*m...
...It has imbued them all with the same fundamental political philosophy and has furnished them with the concrete outlines of the same program...
...The pivotal points of the whole elaborate Marxian philosophy were thus clearly foreshadowed in the first dozen pages of the Communist Manifesto...
...Jales JohanharC, Italy...
...The Communist Manifesto is more than a declaration of principles or a program of action...
...It is at least very doubtful that Marx and Engels, If they were living* today, would insist on the inevitable lauasltj of a violent revolution or that they would advocate the abolition of "all sxlsting social conditions...
...The history of Modem Socialism through these eight decades might almost be called miraculous were it not so clearly explainable without resort to the supernatural...
...the best.of an possible, worlds...
...It closed the period which bad begun with the mart teg...
...The Communist Manifesto it was called, thought It represented the aspirations of the small groups of Socialist working people of chat day...
...The Functions of-Socialism It described the function* of the Socialists in society...
...The cards says: "International WorklngmenS Association, Card of Membership...
...Today it Is « powerful and recognized factor in moat ef the eonnhie* of th* cad world, In 184...
...It has served to weld the Socialist parties of the different countries into one unified and harmonious movement...
...Under this system industrial society is divided into two main interest groups or classes: the capitalists or bourgeois, who own the sources and Instruments of wealth production and appropriate the profits of the todustrial' process, 'and the modern workers, proletarians' without property or tools, who are compelled to work for gages, to "sell themselves piecemeal" to'the capitalists as a commodity...
...When a theory is f/^cked by such' methods as...
...It announced the advent of a gaoyement differing in nature, aba, sad mtfn"I rrom anything that bad before exgaa*_a movement whose capacity for internal development, for genuinely organis growth and adaptation, has enabled a. to triumph over -obstacles that appeared insuperable, to survive repeated slgeki and schisms each of which in tum night well have been thought fatal, to outitve not only the mighty empires akgdi tad over and again tried to drown it...
...in blood, but also the many rival movements which from time to time seemed about to take away from it the leadership in human progress...
...They are lik* Mohateur Jourdam...
...The plates are limited to MO and must be purchased before March 1. The tickets, which Include an excellent supper, are $1.25 each and may be secured from any branch of the Socialist Party or at the Socialist Party Headquarters, 80} Locust street...
...almost « them are or have been, exposed to^.abuae...
...Boom 3. FRIEDR1CH ENGELS' RED CARD The New Leader has attempted to reproduce from the erkxbsal the membership card held by FriedericC Engels to the International Werktognaen's Association (the First International...
...today the workers have ssadsjaad ftn the great consumers cooperative movement by the tea* of mlllioos...
...the Socialist movement was in its infancy and the capitalist world was comparatively new...
...signed) B. Shaw, Corresponding secretary for America...
...men*, bars use it Is to practice Bbarty...
...The card cantatas signatures of figures who have made Socialist history, which has been werid history...
...In two generations it has animated the thought and guided the conduct of the militant labor cohorts of the world...
...Since the partial and temporary breakdown of the Socialist movement in face of the world-war and since the general unsettlement of theoretical values in the movement incident to it it has become fashionable hi some Socialist circles to scoff at the Marxian philosophy and to refer to It with an air of superiority as an outworn dogma...
...In this sign you will win...
...A thousand, pamphleteers, profoundly and witfully ignorant of bacteriology', lampoon Psatour and wax merry over the idea of preventing disease by injecting "filthy virus'* or an "extract of dead bugs" Into" the patients system...
...The Utopian schools of France from Babeuf to Fourier, the English Owenites and the German followers of Wllhelm Welti lng all envisaged a social order based on the common ownership of productive wealth...
...Eugene Dupes...
...Their appeal was directed indiscriminately to all classes of society...
...Marxism as a living force, not as an ossified dogma or oracular priestcraft still remains the writing to fire on the Socialist sky: "In Bee Sign* Vtoees...
...The struggle of the modern workers is therefore a struggle for the emancipation of the whole human race...
...1848 both demanded and made possible...
Vol. 7 • February 1928 • No. 10
