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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 |
| Date | 1919 |
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| Language | English |
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| Original Item Extent | 33 pages; 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 | Public Domain |
| File Name | index.cpd |
| Title | Image 25 |
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| File Name | uhlib_12374394_024.jpg |
| Transcript | CONSTRUCTIVE ELEMENTS OF SOCIALISM 23 would be to expect the impossible to be possible, or the sharp observers to be blind. The Socialist Industrial Union, as the organized expression of proletarian economic indispensability on the industrial field, fulfills two functions in the present struggle. Aside from waging the everyday struggle of the workers against exploitation, a struggle that is waged distinctly with the view of abolishing exploitation, and which is, similar to the Socialist political struggle, purely destructive, the Socialist Industrial Union also performs a constructive function of great importance. This constructive function consists in organizing the productive faculties of the workers not only in line with the requirements of highly socialized capitalist production, but also in line with the requirements of Socialist production in the making. It is an axiom of Historical Materialism that the shell of every new society develops within the womb of the old. We also know that the social elements in capitalist production symbolize the formative stages of a new economic order. However, a class- conscious organization along the lines of highly centralized social production, and truly manifesting the economic power of the workers, does more than give social expression to these formative stages— it really symbolizes the future structure of the Industrial Republic in the process of formation. Therefore, in the same proportion as the Socialist Industrial Union movement develops and gains in influence, the economic and political power of the capitalist class diminishes, and the economic and political power of the workers increases. The growth of the Socialist Industrial Union Movement signifies the ever earlier approaching destruction of capitalist production on the one hand, and the ever more efficient organization of Socialist production on the other. Upon the economic |