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...socialism is either active or isn't socialism.
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The communes of the next revolution will proclaim and establish their independence by direct socialist revolutionary action, abolishing private property. When the revolutionary situation ripens, which may happen any day, and governments are swept away by the people, when the middle-class camp, which only exists by state protection, is thus thrown into disorder, the insurgent people will not wait until some new government decrees, in its marvelous wisdom, a few economic reforms.
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Be it ours to see, from the first day of the Revolution to the last, in all the provinces fighting for freedom, that there is not a single man who lacks bread, not a single woman compelled to stand with the weariful crowd outside the bake-house-door, that haply a coarse loaf may be thrown to her in charity, not a single child pining for want of food.
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The brilliant basic idea of May Day is the autonomous, immediate stepping forward of the proletarian masses, the political mass action of the millions of workers who otherwise are atomized by the barriers of the state in the day-to-day parliamentary affairs, who mostly can give expression to their own will only through the ballot, through the election of their representatives... the strike as a demonstration and means of struggle for the eight-hour day, world peace, and socialism.
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...the mass strike is inseparable from the revolution.
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...Communists and their allies should march separately, but struggle together.
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It is only by revolution that the native genius of the English people can be set free. Revolution does not mean red flags and street fighting, it means a fundamental shift of power. Whether it happens with or without bloodshed is largely an accident of time and place. Nor does it mean the dictatorship of a single class. The people in England who grasp what changes are needed and are capable of carrying them through are not confined to any one class, though it is true that very few people with over £2,000 a year are among them. What is wanted is a conscious open revolt by ordinary people against inefficiency, class privilege and the rule of the old.
["The Lion and the Unicorn: Socialism and the English Genius," by George Orwell, 1941, Part II, Section II.]
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The concentration of capital in powerful concerns and their connection with big finance renders the position of the capitalist employers much stronger than the workers'. Powerful industrial magnates reign as monarchs over large masses of workers; they keep them in absolute subjection and do not allow "their" men to go into unions. Now and then the heavily exploited wage slaves break out in revolt, in a big strike. They hope to enforce better terms, shorter hours, more humane conditions, the right to organize. Union organizers come to aid them. But then the capitalist masters use their social and political power. The strikers are driven from their homes; they are shot by militia or hired thugs; their spokesmen are railroaded into jail; their relief actions are prohibited by court injunctions. The capitalist press denounces their cause as disorder, murder and revolution; public opinion is aroused against them. Then, after months of standing firm and of heroic suffering, exhausted by misery and disappointment, unable to make a dent on the ironclad capitalist structure, they have to submit and to postpone their claims to more opportune times.
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What is it you suspect, gentlemen -- a bomb in my right pocket and a copy of The Daily Worker in my left?
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But I thought you Soviet Club people enjoyed being suspected of things. Why, it ought to be the proudest moment of your life when you're really looked on as a dangerous fellow.
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...Socialism could spring forth suddenly because of the essential goodness of the cause it stands for; that it could bring about an act of will, and therefore by an imperial decree, by generous concessions on the part of the ruling classes, or by an act of violence on the part of the masses, an economic revolution -- economic, mind you, and not merely political.
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We must be prepared to see a fight in Paris between the Moderates and the Reds.... How sad is the fate of this unhappy people.
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April 11, 2020 : Revolution -- Added.
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