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...labor unionism, to be of any real value to the working class, must be organized, not along craft lines, but along class lines.
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The workers, on the other hand, are poor as a rule, and ignorant as a class, but they are in an overwhelming majority.
In a word, they have the power, but are not conscious of it. This then is the supreme demand; to make them conscious of the power of their class, or class-conscious workingmen.
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It is of vital importance to the trades-union that its members be class-conscious...
[Section: Trades-unionism.]
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We reckon loyalty in general a good thing, even a fine thing- - loyalty to country or faith, to school or University, even to your business firm or cricket club. Is it not even more clearly a fine thing, this loyalty to something less obvious, more ideal -- the conception of the welfare of the great majority that earn their living under wage conditions?
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Final success, I would fain hope, must be on the side of justice. I am certain, however, that till the triumph of labor be complete; till productive industry alone be opulent, and till idleness alone be poor, till the admirable maxim that "he who sows shall reap" be solidly established; till the right of property shall be founded on principles of justice, and not on those of slavery; till man shall be held more in honor than the clod be treads on, or the machine he guides -- there cannot, and there ought not to be either peace on earth or goodwill among men.
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...definite class-conscious Socialists... accept the class war between the wage-earners and the capitalists as the main feature of our modern Society...
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The position of the workers in the present reacts on their attitude toward the development of the future. They expect their emancipation only from the progress over and beyond the present. They are progressive even there where they do not show any class consciousness and do not give any thought to Socialism, as e. g., in England. They may be politically ignorant or indifferent, and may permit themselves to be used for reactionary purposes, but they will never consciously strive for any reactionary measure.
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"Revolution" like "mass strike" signifies nothing but an external form of the class struggle...
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...it is the class-conscious proletariat that is the active and leading element, while the big bourgeois turns out to be either openly against the revolution or liberal moderates...
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In fact, what could give the workers greater courage and faith in their own strength than a mass work stoppage which they had decided themselves? What could give more courage to the eternal slaves of the factories and the workshops than the mustering of their own troops?
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The labor movement springs from the desire and urgent need of the workers to improve their conditions of life or at least to prevent them getting worse.
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...in economic terms it might be argued that social conservatism is a product of the individual's belief in continued and increasing prosperity, radicalism a product of discontent expressing itself in either a defensive or more aggrandizing manner. This is the significance of Marx's distinction between the conservative and revolutionary peasant...
Chronology :
April 14, 2020 : Class -- Added.
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