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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 19 monwealth. With this demand as the only immediate and ultimate aim to struggle for, with the social revolution as the objective before it, the Socialist movement can not fail to be a truly revolutionary movement, and must by necessity formulate tactics just as revolutionary as the aim that gave birth to them. We have seen from the foregoing that the economic power of the workers slumbers in their class-consciousness; furthermore, that this class- consciousness can only be effectively aroused and reared in the proletarians with the aid of Socialist education predicated upon a Socialist or revolutionary objective. Therefore, all so-called "Socialist propaganda" and "activity" not based upon such an aim, or advancing it as the "ultimate demand," advocating as "immediate demands" an endless string of palliatives or reforms, can not be considered Socialist activity, and the adherents and votes obtained thereby can not be considered class- conscious adherents or votes. The Socialist aim must, in consequence, be jealously guarded and kept intact by the Socialist movement, and can not be sacrificed to the aspirations of political quacks or charlatans. The question what organic form is this economic power, this proletarian class-consciousness, to take on in its battle against the economic power of the capitalist class is nowr in order, and will be treated in as detailed a form as the limited space at our disposal permits. As an introduction to this phase of Constructive Socialism, we desire to affirm the importance and necessity of utilizing both wings at the disposal of the proletariat—of the workers practising political as well as industrial action in the conduction of the class war. Admitting the imperativeness of both, it now remains to establish the function of each |