The Basic Principles of the Modern Socialist Movement
Oneal, James
The Basic Principles of the Modern Socialist Movement By James Oneal This is one of a aeries of articles—six groups of tix artiettt musk—to appear in The Sew leader in cooperation with the...
...To* Das's °* tne Pr°sTram pjjl probably be a resolution by Hr Masai) i and adopted by the ttt conference of the party...
...The savage who paused to drink at a pool of clear water observed "his other self" reflected in the pool...
...Organization of cooperatives for'production, distribution, and credit in unsocialized section of economic life...
...However, their crude instruments of wood, stone and bronze added to their physical strength and set them aside from their animal ancestors...
...Thus from one experience arose the idea of flesh and spirit, a dual being...
...SOCIALISM is a philosophy of history, an organized movement of the working masses with a program and an ultimate aim for the abolition of the capitalist system...
...Only those sections receiving a favorable vote in 75 per cent of the organizations shall stand...
...The convention will be opened by State Chairman J. Henry Stump, former Mayor of Reading...
...The famous Manifesto of Marx and Engels, which founded the modern Socialist movement, begins with this sentence: "The history of all hitherto existing society is the history of class struggles...
...hope of averting further disasters, and this provided the priests with another opportunity to convert the fears of the savage into mystic rites and ceremonials intended to protect him against some mysterious power that hovered above the clouds...
...One is that the ultimate purpose of the federation will be the abolition of the ca.pi' talist system...
...These specialists finally assumed a dress that set them apart from their fellows and they acquired a distinction and power that enabled them to exercise a large control over the minds of the rest of the community...
...Human or animal sacrifices were made in the...
...7. The management of' the campaign shall be In the hands of a committee proportionately representing the various organizations...
...Many comrades fear that the Socialist Party will be swept Into a form of third party which will not actually work for Socialism and will lead ultimately to the destruction of our own organisation without any advance having been made toward our goal...
...Savages exchanged accounts of their dreams and became aware that seeing and talking with the departed was a universal experience...
...Jesso H. Holmes, professor of Philosophy at Swarthmore and president ef the Teachers' Union, will represent the Swarthmore Branch at *1te) state convention here July 21-22, at the Socialist Park, Sinking Springs...
...Was not this his "other self," his spirit, calling to him...
...Little is known ,the western countries of the exart or the quality of Socialism in India, and the following, from an uticl'e by Ayana Angadi, in the London New Leader, is presented |M What it is worth: "A committee has been appointed pdraft a constitution and program 5>r the All-India Congress Socialist Party...
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...I feel that the only hope for the workers of America lies in the formation of a federation of radical groups large enough to arouse hope and enthusiasm and to serve as a rallying point for those disgusted with capitalism but who have felt that existing organizations are incapable of accomplishing any radical change...
...All the Provincial inches are being revised...
...5. Candidates for public office shall be selected primarily for ability but shall bo apportioned as far as possible in accordance to the actual membership of the cooperating organizations...
...The conference will consider the launching of a Pennsylvania League of Women Socialists...
...We can even understand the origin of some of the basic ideas of these early peoples and observe these ideas as they have survived today...
...Other phenomena tended to fix these ideas in the minds of primitive men...
...Any lesser goal would be a dangerous waste of time and energy and would onlylead to the Ultimate disruption of the party...
...he saw and talked with relatives and friends who had died...
...Comrade Holmes will deliver the opening address at a Conference of Pennsylvania Women,Socialists, July 21...
...Redistribution of land to le peasants...
...Among the delegates win be James H. Maurer of Reading, Socialist candidate for U. S. Senator...
...He translated his ignorance and fears into queer cults and practices which, changed somewhat at...
...The roar of thunder and terrifying flashes of lightning had a profound impact upon the minds of our early ancestors...
...All power to the producing M«ses...
...chiller a New "Enemy" Of the "New" Germany SAARBRUECKEN.—The daily nttsehe Freiheit reports from imburg a characteristic example the growing restlessness of the (rman people.| During a recent rformance of Schiller's great ttorlcal drama "Don Carlos" the iblic turned the display on the ige into a remarkable demonration against Nazi oppression...
...In other studies by many Socialist writers this conception has been expanded into a literature interpreting the evolution of satiety through hundreds of thousands of years...
...The two things most needed in America today are definite and powerful moves to check the growing fascist tendency and to substitute a planned cooperative commonwealth for the chaos of a crumbling capitalism...
...George W. Hartman of State College, Socialist candidate for Congress...
...I wish to suggest the following plan under which I feel that the Socialist' Party could enter a Farmer-Labor Federation without danger to itself and with assurance of 'worth-while results to the workers: 1. No participating organization shall be required to sacrifice its individuality in any way...
...So ideas, mythology, mysticism and superstition arose out of a material environment that man could not understand...
...Dreams were vivid realities...
...The platform shall be adopted by a joint convention but shall bs ratified by saeh component organization section by section...
...0CIALIST PARTY IS I'LANN EI) FOR INDIA All-India Socialist Party may grow out of the Indian Na,nal Congress that will meet in ombay in October...
...When he called through the hills the echo of his shout came back to him...
...Comrade iklns) and EH Bourden of ClareBl>t...
...The above has been prepared with the Idea of safeguarding the party so completely that these fears will Hi'fsmoved...
...The conference carried a resotion in favor of 'direct action' at her than 'chtil disobedience'), id congratulated the textile and per strikers on their splendid lion...
...The physical environment provided the basis for these ideas, but these ideas in turn, as they evolved in succeeding ages, have the appearance of being independent of material causation...
...It evaded him...
...At state platform will be drawn up and plans formulated for the state campaign...
...When Marquis de Posa kneeled fore King Philip and uttered the mous remark, "Sir, give us freeas of thought," the overflowing idience broke Into spontaneous iplause and wild demonstrations liich lasted several minutes...
...There naturally arose the jdea of appeasing the wrath of the god of gods who thus scourged primitive men...
...3. The Federation shall consist of distinct entitles...
...Whan he dreamed...
...It appeared that the wrath of some all-powerful being was directed against them...
...State monopoly of foreign lD»de...
...An earthquake rocked his habitation or torrents of rain scattered his flocks, floods destroyed the few things he planted or carried away some of the tribe...
...Meyer was Minister for Soil Welfare in the State of Oldenirg from 1919 to 1923...
...Adult franchise on func:ional basis...
...This committee shall not be chosen by alf(oH«V convention but each Organization shall select its own members in any way it sees fit...
...Cooperative farming, with I view to collectivization of all agriculture...
...Let us consider the early environment of mankind before the rise of "civilization...
...Sarah Limbach, executive secretary of the Socialist Party of Pennsylvania...
...William H. Wilkin* William H. Wilklns, writer, ar...
...None of the cooperating groups shall have any jurisdiction over any of the others, nor shall it interfere in any way with the internal affairs of another...
...It <loded: "1...
...Still other' experiences of the savage convinced him of the" existence of a spirit world...
...The answer is that an understanding of human society in any age is to be found in the material and social environment in which human beings live...
...It was universal, another proof that man was both flesh and spirit...
...teacher and one-time Socialist indidate for Governor of New *»p*hire and Secretary of the ¦t« Central Committee, died last •* at the age of 81...
...Robert Lieberman of Pittsburgh, chairman of the Pennsylvania Workers' Federation and Unemployed Citizens' League of Allegheny County, and Dr...
...The Communist Party shall not become a member of the Federation, nor shall any organization known to be undeV Communist control, nor any organization advocating a violent revolution as a means of establishing a new social order, nor any organization advocating fascism or the establishment of a dictatorship or the limiting of democracy and constitutional government...
...Discussions on labor and social legislation, the 1984 state campaign, amLa^program o! activities for women Socialists will bo led by Lilith Wilson, socialist member of the Pennsylvania legislature...
...This includes the soil and climate, the ways in which wealth ia produced and distributed, the division oi society into classes, the governing forms of society, its ruling ideas in politics, education, religion and the state...
...Before entering such a federation, however, the Socialist Party should be definitely assured of certain things...
...How Socialists Can Work In Farm-Labor Federation By W. Scott Lewis Chairman, Socialist Party of California IN a rapidly changing world, individuals and organizations unable to adjust themselves to meet the needs of the moment are doomed to impotence and failure...
...Given these two guarantees, the comrades could throw themselves into the work with renewed vigor and enthusiasm and with the knowledge that at last they stood a chance of really getting somewhere...
...Every savsge had this experience...
...gomrada Wilklns died a Som, HOLMES TO OPEN PENNA...
...Liquidation of debts owing iy peasants and workers...
...The Basic Principles of the Modern Socialist Movement By James Oneal This is one of a aeries of articles—six groups of tix artiettt musk—to appear in The Sew leader in cooperation with the Committee of Education of the Socialist Party...
...Wnat is meant by this...
...Every attempt to touch the reflected figure was baffled...
...The expenses of campaigns shall he apportioned among the various organizations in proportion to their actual membership...
...Jennie Llbros, chairman of the Women's Committee of the Socialist Party of Philadelphia, and Emma Sands of "the Women's Committee, Socialist Party of Berks County...
...Knowing nothing of the origin and history of the world in which they lived, their explanation of life and struggle was as crude as the environment in which they lived...
...The immediate result should be several men in Congress and the various state legislatures...
...Gandhi has issued a statement elcoming the new organiation, but indemning several items in this ¦ogram, especially the elimination ' the princes, landlords and exoiters...
...They were at the mercy of sleet, snow and rain, storm and floods, droughts and pests...
...Elimination of princes, landlords, and all other classes if exploiters...
...These ideas reacted upon human beings, shaped their conduct and beliefs, controlled their action, and the priests of every cult later served ruling clastes who understood the value of these ideas in keeping the slaves and serfs in subjection...
...Their crude guesses became folk lore and religious beliefs...
...4. The platform shall contain a plank calling for the abolition of the capitalist system of industry and the substitution of a cooperative system operated for use and not for profit...
...2. The Socialist Party shall not give up its right to conduct its propaganda for Socialism in any way it sees fit or to build up its dues-paying membership...
...SOCIALIST CONFERENCE READING, Pa.— The Socialist Gubernatorial candidate, Dr...
...Sleep itself was a mystery and he interpreted it as a regular lapse into the spirit world...
...Eventually certain individuals specialized in these beliefs and they became medicine men or priests who gave their time to developing these crude ideas...
...H. All the cooperating groups shall agree to support the entire ticket and platform and see that their candidates live up to this agreement in all public utterances...
...Our shaggy ancestors who lived in caves conquered little of their jftysical environment...
...No organization shall participate in the Federation Until after it has officially agreed to accept and abide by the agreements and regulations herein laid down, The above is not Intended to take the place of a regularly adopted constitution and by-laws, or to cover the technical points that must be worked out in the formation of a Federation...
...Is is also essential that the existence of the Socialist Party as a separate unit within the federation be assured...
...Other experiences confirmed this idea...
...Another Hitler Victim HAMBURG.—The Nazi press re>rts gleefully the death of the icralist leader Julius Meyer, who mmltted suicide by hanging himlf...
...the dawn of "civilisation," were adapted for the protection of ruling dosses and for keeping slaves reconciled to their slavery...
...Occasionally a bolt of lightning destroyed his rude hut or penetrated his cave, destroying human life...
...Many radical groups see this necessity but have failed to grasp one of the greatest lessons taught by the trust, that the power of individual units is vastly increased by uniting into a cooperative group...
...None of the organizations shall allow any personal attacks to be made upon members of any of the other organizations, or upon the principles or methods of other participating bodies...
...What is plain to us today as physical phenomena gave rise to folk lore, mysticism and superstition...
...Its philosophy includes the materialistic conception of history...
...Air these" calamities appeared to W punishment for offenses of certain persons or of a clan or tribe...
...In computing the member-' ship of the cooperating organizations, only actual dues-paying members in good standing shall be counted, except that in the case of organizations having no duos paying membership the matter of representation and campaign assessments shall be arrived at by an agreement with a majority of the other organization...
...The headquarters of the Confess have been reopened at Aliaibad after two and a half years' ippression...
...It is merely a basic agreement upon which a cooperative political federation can be built...
...Further performances of the ama have been forbidden by the ithorities...
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...N. H., were the only two •fillers of their local who stuck the party during the war...
...Immediate socialization of iteel, cotton, jute, railways, shipping, mines, banks, and public utilities...
Vol. 17 • July 1934 • No. 28
