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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 27 |
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| Transcript | CONSTRUCTIVE ELEMENTS OF SOCIALISM 25 lighting and repudiating all other agitation and principles as reactionary or capitalistic. In the following chapter we will endeavor to take up the organic phases of Socialist Industrial Unionism. V. The immediate goal of the trades unions is confined to the necessary daily struggles between capital and labor as a means of repulsing the increasing usurpations of capital, i. e., it is confined to the question of wages and hours. This activity of the unions is not only permissible, but also indispensable as long as the present system exists. Moreover, this activity must be generalized through the establishment and consolidation of economic organizations (Gewerkschaften) in all countries. On the other side, the economic organizations have become, without being conscious of it, the focus of organization for the working class; performing the same function as the mediaeval municipalities and communities for. the bourgeoisie. If the economic organizations are indispens- / able to the daily guerrilla war between capital and labor, \Jthey are far more important as an organised means to advance the abolition of the system of wage-slavery itself. (Underscoring ours.) —Prom a Resolution prepared by Karl Marx and adopted at the Congress of the International Workingmen's Association at Geneva, 1866. AFTER having ascertained the seat of proletarian power in the organized class-consciousness at the point of production, and also after having defined the functions of the political and economic organizations of the proletariat in the so- called every-day struggle—a struggle which we only conceive as part of the great historical class conflict—we believe it is opportune to place an essay, dealing with the purely organic phase of Industrial Unionism, before the readers. How does the Socialist Industrial Union organize the workers; and in what manner does this form of organization differ from that of the Craft Unions and so-called bastard types of Industrial Unions? These questions will now instinctively crop up, and |