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Kun, Béla, 1886-1939. Revolutionary essays - Image 14. 1920. Special Collections, University of Houston Libraries. University of Houston Digital Library. Web. June 18, 2018. https://digital.lib.uh.edu/collection/scpamp/item/662/show/623.

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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 14
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File Name	uhlib_1028723_013.jpg
Transcript	The Western proletariat will not be able to evade its historical destiny : it must become revolutionary. The May Day of 1918 will be the last of the series of dual First of May celebrations. It will be followed by the true May celebrations of the victorious, ruling proletarian class. This May Day is not only a symbo'l, but a signal. It is the symbol of the existence of the International, the signal for the world-revolution. Marx and the Middle Classes. ("Pravda," May 4th, 1918.) "The internal enemy" of the proletarian Russian Revolution is constituted first and foremost by the lower middle classes. The expropriation of the expropriators being carried out at present does not represent the most serious obstacle in the path of proletarian dictatorship. In the path of the expropriation of capital the obstacles are of a purely objective nature. The small group of large capitalists has not the masses on its side, and therefore speedily becomes powerless in face of the armed proletariat. The lower middle classes of society, on the other hand, represent a considerable section of the population, especially in Russia—to say nothing of the propertied section of the peasantry. To reckon with the wishes of these lower middle classes would mean the halting half-way of the work of the Revolution : it would mean an end of the aspirations towards the destruction of capitalism. Exactly because the lower middle-class mass is numerically large, it has retained an influence over the working-class movement. But every concession to this influence represents a departure from the Marxian standpoint, because it was precisely Marx who freed Socialism from lower middle-class adulterations. The behaviour of the middle-class Socialist parties during the opening encounters and the final decisive struggle of the proletarian revolution doubly imposes on us the duty of recalling, on the occasion of the centenary of the birth of our first teacher, what his views were on the subject of the lower middle classes. And, though the representatives of various shades of lower middle-class Socialism are constantly referring to Marx, in reality there is no greater sacrilege than this. (12) ■..'■•'.-'.