James Connolly (June 5, 1868 - May 12, 1916) on Anarchism and Social Organization

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(1868 - 1916)

Scottish-Born and Irish-Blooded Republican, Socialist, Trade Union Leader, Cowgate Area of Edinburgh, Scotland

: An Irish republican, socialist and trade union leader. Born to Irish parents in the Cowgate area of Edinburgh, Scotland, Connolly left school for working life at the age of 11, and became involved in socialist politics in the 1880s. (From: Wikipedia.org.)


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Quote #8 on Political Struggle Quotes >> Anarchism and Social Organization

“My reading of history tells me that in all great social changes the revolutionary class always fails of success until it is able to do the work of the class it seeks to destroy, and to do it more efficiently. And when it has so perfected itself that it is able to perform this work, neither gods nor men can stop its onward march to victory. In other words, a new social order cannot supplant the old until it has its own organization ready to take its place. Within the social order of capitalism I can see no possibility of building up a new economic organization fit for the work of superseding the old on socialist lines, except that new order be built upon the lines of the industries that capitalism itself has perfected. Therefore I am heart and soul an industrial unionist.

["Changes," by James Connolly, 1914, Forward, May 9, 1914.]”

Source: "Changes," by James Connolly, 1914, Forward, May 9, 1914.

"Changes," by James Connolly, 1914, Forward, May 9, 1914.

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