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They [the working classes] live habitually in an industrial serfdom, by which, though nominally free, they are in practice as a class bound to a system of machine-production the implements of which they do not own, and in the distribution of whose product they have not the slightest voice, except what they can occasionally exert by a veiled intimidation which draws slightly more of the product in their direction. From such serfdom, military conscription is not so great a change. But into the military enterprise they go, not with those hurrahs of the significant classes whose instincts war so powerfully feeds, but with the same apathy with which they enter and continue in the industrial enterprise.
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Thinking men and women the world over are beginning to realize that patriotism is too narrow and limited a conception to meet the necessities of our time. The centralization of power has brought into being an international feeling of solidarity among the oppressed nations of the world; a solidarity which represents a greater harmony of interests between the workingman of America and his brothers abroad than between the American miner and his exploiting compatriot; a solidarity which fears not foreign invasion, because it is bringing all the workers to the point when they will say to their masters, "Go and do your own killing. We have done it long enough for you."
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Time and again has the army been used to shoot down strikers and to inculcate the sickening idea of patriotism, for the purpose of dividing the workers against themselves and helping the masters to the spoils. The inroads that Syndicalist agitation has made into the superstition of patriotism are evident from the dread of the ruling class for the loyalty of the army, and the rigid persecution of the anti-militarists. Naturally --- for the ruling class realizes much better than the workers that when the soldiers will refuse to obey their superiors, the whole system of capitalism will be doomed.
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...why did you abandon the sun, poor man, to see the dead, and this place without joy?
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Upon the first suggestion that the city should now surrender, one doubt immediately presented itself to all minds: would the Reds permit a surrender?
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Protectionist-Imperialism is a shoddy policy at best, meaning as it does the perpetuation of domination abroad and of economic enslavement at home. But it is, at any rate, a policy, and there is something grandiose and imposing about it all. We have seen of late years that even the poorest electors are influenced by its glamour, and forget, in their excitement and illusion, the matters which directly concern themselves and their children.
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Dear Comrades! Your Government and ours have plunged into war in order to satisfy their imperialistic desires, but to us there is no barrier of race, territory or nationality. We are comrades, brothers and sisters, and have no reason to fight each other. Our militarism and our so-called patriotism are your enemy!
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In this moment of armament lunacy and war orgies, only the resolute will to struggle of the working masses, their capacity and readiness for powerful mass actions, can maintain world peace and push away the menacing world conflagration.
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These conflicts of interests between the national capitalisms explode into wars. World war is the crowning of the policy of imperialism. For the workers, war is not only the destruction of all their feelings of international brotherhood, it also means the most violent exploitation of their class for capitalist profit. The working class, as the most numerous and the most oppressed class of society, has to bear all the horrors of war. The workers have to give not only their labor power, but also their health and their lives.
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The war is good. No better education could be given the workers. After the tumult and the murder ceases, workers will realize to what ends availed their slavish toil -- what was the aim of this flamboyant civilization. Comrades killed, life made even more precarious, the burden of it all on the shoulders of working men and women.
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War is mischievous to every class in the community; but to none is it such a curse as to the laborers.
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The war has proven how much more solid and persistent than we thought was the power and strength of the bourgeois state. When you have seen millions and millions of proletarians marching for a good five years at the behest of a carabineer or of a shock trooper, almost without a single revolt; when you have seen that the executions by shooting, the decimation, and all that is most horrible in the military courts, have been tolerated by the proletarians of all nations; when you have seen that a war, which was one of the most hateful expressions of the cannibalistic antagonisms of the various bourgeois states, has not served to rekindle, strengthen and renew the proletarian International but instead has suffocated and scattered it; finally, when you have gone through all these experiences, you are honestly forced to take them into account in forming your predictions and evaluations.
Chronology :
April 09, 2020 : Workers -- Added.
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