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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 |
| Title | Image 26 |
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| Transcript | * 24 THE ROAD TO POWER power vested within the Socialist Industrial Union, historical evolution has, consequently, conferred two duties: the first, to stand as the organized economic might behind the revolutionary objective of the proletariat—to serve as the buckler and sword of the social revolution; the second, to insure and organize the fruits of the revolution—to take and hold the industries in the interests of the Industrial Republic. In the first capacity, it serves as the agent and executor of the Socialist political party, and in the second it functions as the organized productive administration of the Industrial Republic. In concluding, we wish to again emphasize that the economic and social might of the proletariat does not rest in a certain form of economic organization, as for instance Industrial Unionism; furthermore, that the structural or organic phases can never impart power to an organization; but that this economic might is lodged in the class- consciousness of the workers; however, that this class-consciousness can only be derived from a Socialist conception of Capitalism which again imparts to the workers the Constructive Elements of Socialism, clearly outlining the functions of revolutionary Socialist political action and Socialist Industrial Unionism. In consequence, a worker can be an Industrial Unionist without being a Socialist, but not a Socialist without being an Industrial Unionist. Industrial Unionism to be effective, and to have the historic significance accorded to it above, must, therefore, be squarely planted upon Socialist principles, and be vitalized by the dynamic forces of class-consciousness. The advocacy of uncompromising Socialist principles is, in consequence, a fundamental demand for all Socialist agitation. Such Socialist propaganda can only revolve around one demand—Socialism, |