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Dannenberg, Karl. The road to power, or, the constructive elements of socialism - Image 10. 1919. Special Collections, University of Houston Libraries. University of Houston Digital Library. Web. April 18, 2021. https://digital.lib.uh.edu/collection/scpamp/item/1375/show/1344.

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Dannenberg, Karl. (1919). The road to power, or, the constructive elements of socialism - Image 10. Socialist and Communist Pamphlets. Special Collections, University of Houston Libraries. Retrieved from https://digital.lib.uh.edu/collection/scpamp/item/1375/show/1344

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Dannenberg, Karl, The road to power, or, the constructive elements of socialism - Image 10, 1919, Socialist and Communist Pamphlets, Special Collections, University of Houston Libraries, accessed April 18, 2021, https://digital.lib.uh.edu/collection/scpamp/item/1375/show/1344.

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Title	The road to power, or, the constructive elements of socialism
Creator (LCNAF)	Dannenberg, Karl
Publisher	Literature Bureau of the Workers' International Industrial Union
Place of Creation (TGN)	Detroit, Michigan
Date	1919
Subject.Topical (LCSH)	Socialism Labor unions
Genre (AAT)	pamphlets
Language	English
Type (DCMI)	Text
Original Item Extent	33 pages: chart; 17 cm.
Original Item Location	HX86.D25 1919
Original Item URL	http://library.uh.edu/record=b8304529~S11
Original Collection	Socialist and Communist Pamphlets
Digital Collection	Socialist and Communist Pamphlets
Digital Collection URL	http://digital.lib.uh.edu/collection/scpamp
Repository	Special Collections, University of Houston Libraries
Repository URL	http://libraries.uh.edu/branches/special-collections
Use and Reproduction	This item is in the public domain and may be used freely.
File Name	index.cpd

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Title	Image 10
Format (IMT)	image/jpeg
File Name	uhlib_12374394_009.jpg
Transcript	8 THE ROAD TO POWER difference of interests, functions and historic destinies breeds the class antagonism and the struggle for power. Today Capitalism is strongly fortified behind economic and political bulwarks. -By virtue of its industrial powers, it has humanity the world over at the throat. To dislodge Capitalism from this powerful position, and to thus lay the cornerstone of the Socialist Commonwealth is the august mission of Constructive Socialism. In this struggle between the capitalist class and the proletariat, the latter, being in the position of aggressor, is naturally at a disadvantage. It is a disadvantage, however, that compels a survey of the battlefield by the workers, the results of which contain the solution to the problem of how to overcome and eliminate this obstacle. This survey of the economic, political and social position of the capitalist class reveals, that the basic power or influence of this class resides not, as is often erroneously assumed, in its political domination or control of government, but in its economic rule over society. History, teaches and profusely illustrates: that the class in control of the economic resources of society in a given period has also been the class to exercise practical control over political society, i. e.—over society itself. History vindicates the contention that the economic life of society, the form of ownership and methods of production and exchange existing at a certain stage of social development, is the compelling factor, the preponderant form, which determines, influences and shapes all other ethical, moral, intellectual and political, in short— cultural phases of life. A casual study of the periods of Antique Slavery, Feudalism and Capitalism will serve to convincingly illustrate this contention. Such a study will reveal that the roots of Slavery rested in the absolute