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Kun, Béla, 1886-1939. Revolutionary essays - Image 10. 1920. Special Collections, University of Houston Libraries. University of Houston Digital Library. Web. September 24, 2020. https://digital.lib.uh.edu/collection/scpamp/item/662/show/619.

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Title	Revolutionary essays
Series Title	International socialist library, 15
Creator (LCNAF)	Kun, Béla, 1886-1939
Publisher	British Socialist Party
Place of Creation (TGN)	London
Date	1920
Subject.Topical (LCSH)	Socialism
Subject.Geographic (TGN)	Austria Hungary
Genre (AAT)	pamphlets
Language	English
Type (DCMI)	Text
Original Item Extent	46 pages; 18 cm.
Original Item Location	HX256.K84
Original Item URL	http://library.uh.edu/record=b8304436~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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Title	Image 10
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File Name	uhlib_1028723_009.jpg
Transcript	class-consciousness in the working-class, the proletarian revolution has done more than the propaganda of all the opportunists—now the deadly enemies of the revolution— taken together. The dass struggle has reached the highest degree of intensity in which it was conceived by Karl Marx. The proletariat has organised itself as the ruling class, in spite of all the attempts to hinder it on the part of the social- philosophers, semi-philosophers, and aesthetes. For the proletariat as a ruling class, a monument to Karl Marx is a monument to its own final victory. Thanks to this victory, Marxism in Russia has ceased to be the affair of intellectual studv-circles whose intention it was to alter that teaching as it seemed good to them. The Marxian theory has become the accepted doctrine of the proletarian State, which was born of the revolution, and which continues it. If only because the dictatorship of the proletariat is carrying through the revolution to its logical conclusion, Marxism in Russia will not become an "official" theory in the sense in which it became such amongst the German Social-Democrats. Marxism was and is the theory of the revolution, just as Marx himself was never merely a theorist, but a revolutionary champion of the proletariat who always stubbornly fought for its victory. The revolutionary class can never fall into the error of worshipping of individuals. Nevertheless, what one of the greatest Marxian economists said is true : "Names are factors." The same can be said of monuments. If the victorious Russian proletariat erects monuments on all its squares to its greatest fighters, this will be not the cult of individuals, but an act of respect towards its own revolution. And even if the priceless treasures of art disappear into the meeting pot, it will not be barbarism, as some gentle souls affirm. Everything must be subordinated to the end of the proletarian revolution, just as everything hitherto was subordinated to the purpose of enslaving the proletariat. The first monument to Marx, unveiled at Penza, is assisting the work of the revolution, since the memory of Marx, in common with all his writings and actions, is in all its forms a factor in the victory of the proletariat. (8)