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| Title | The road to power, or, the constructive elements of socialism |
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| Publisher | Literature Bureau of the Workers' International Industrial Union |
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| Date | 1919 |
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| Language | English |
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| 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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| Transcript | CONSTRUCTIVE ELEMENTS OF SOCIALISM 11 this momentous and gigantic object ; bow to create the so essential power in the working class; this question is now in order, and its proper solution forms the quintessence of Constructive Socialism— the basis for scientific Socialist tactics and effective action. III. T IS a recognized truism that pressure begets pressure and that might breeds might. Furthermore, must the inexorable fact be recognized that the means and tactics of warfare of the aggressor, in this case the proletariat, are largely dependent on and determined by the strategical position and general methods employed by the enemy, the capitalist class. A study of the social position of the capitalist class has already revealed to us that the roots of the exploiters' power in society are to be found in their economic control of the socially necessary means of production. The holding of this economic citadel imparts a strength or power to the capitalist class phenomenal in scope and only explainable by the absolute indispensability of these economic resources to society. To capture this position from the capitalist class, to meet the economic power of the plutocrats with a superior economic power of the workers, that is the next logical step in this gigantic struggle. Economic power, as has been sufficiently illustrated in the foregoing pages, is the source of all other forms of social influence. Therefore, economic power can be correctly defined as the basic element of social might. Consequently, if a class seeks to rise to political domination, seeks to capture the governmental institutions of a nation, in short, seeks to attain control of society, it must first predicate its ambitions and demands upon a solid structure of organized economic power. Demands and movements not so fortified are in the |