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Other editions - View allCommon terms and phrasesAll-Russian American anarchist army Article Bolshevik bourgeois bourgeoisie branches capital capitalist Central Committee Central Executive Committee City class struggle co-operation Communist International Communist Labor Party Communist Party comrades Conference Congress constitution convention Council declared delegates democracy dictatorship district economic elected establishment exploitation Federated Soviet Republic fight German groups imperialism imperialistic industrial unionism issued land Language Federations leaders Left Wing Lenin manifesto Martens mass action means meeting membership ment mittee Moscow National Executive Committee organization parliamentary Party of America peace peasants People's Petrograd political present principles production proletarian revolution proletariat propaganda purpose radical representatives Revolutionary Tribunal Russian Socialist Federated Russian Soviet Secretary Section Socialist Federated Soviet Socialist Labor Party Socialist movement Socialist Party society soldiers Soviet government strike Syndicalists tariat Third International tion trade unions United vote wage earner workers workingmen York Popular passagesPage 59 - It has been the first to show what man's activity can bring about. It has accomplished wonders far surpassing Egyptian pyramids, Roman aqueducts, and Gothic cathedrals; it has conducted expeditions that put in the shade all former Exoduses of nations and crusades. The bourgeoisie cannot exist without constantly revolutionizing the instruments of production, and thereby the relations of production, and with them the whole relations of society. Page 60 - The bourgeoisie, during its rule of scarce one hundred years, has created more massive and more colossal productive forces than have all preceding generations together. Page 56 - 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 65 - ... all these fight against the bourgeoisie, to save from extinction their existence as fractions of the middle class. They are therefore not revolutionary, but conservative. Nay, more; they are reactionary, for they try to roll back the wheel of history. If by chance they are revolutionary, they are so only in view of their impending transfer into the proletariat; they thus defend not their present, but their future interests; they desert their own standpoint to place themselves at that of the proletariat.... Page 46 - 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 885 - The working class and the employing class have nothing in common. There can be no peace so long as hunger and want are found among millions of working people and the few, who make up the employing class, have all the good things of life. Page 61 - For many a decade past, the history of industry and commerce is but the history of the revolt of modern productive forces against modern conditions of production, against the property relations that are the conditions for the existence of the bourgeoisie and of its rule. Page 203 - Each State should make provision for a system of inspection in which women should take part, in order to ensure the enforcement of the laws and regulations for the protection of the employed. Page 58 - The executive of the modern State is but a committee for managing the common affairs of the whole bourgeoisie. Page 63 - The more openly this despotism proclaims gain to be its end and aim, the more petty, the more hateful and the more embittering it is. Bibliographic information |