Title | National constitution, declaration of principles and congressional platform |
Alternative Title | National constitution, declaration of principles and congressional platform: as adopted in convention at Detroit, 1934 |
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Publisher | National Headquarters |
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Date | 1934 |
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Language | English |
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Original Item Extent | 37 pages; 15 cm |
Original Item Location | HX89.S73 1934 |
Original Item URL | http://library.uh.edu/record=b8304551~S5 |
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 |
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File Name | index.cpd |
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Transcript | tuates* between frank reaction and fictitious liberalism, neither of which offers to the workers any substantial or enduring program for the acquisition of their birthright. ONLY THOSE who labor with hand and brain, in their concerted might, can overthrow this monstrous system and replace it with a Socialist order. Whenever they will, they can transfer to the people the ownership of industry, land, finance and natural resources including water power, and operate these possessions of the Socialist commonwealth for the material and cultural enrichment of all—beginning with the large scale industries of a public character such as banking, insurance, mining, transportation, communication, and the trustified industries', and extending the process rapidly to the point where rent, interest, and profit are abolished. The Socialization of industry as Socialists conceive it, however, means more than simple government ownership— it involves the opposite of irresponsible bureaucracy, and includes democratic administration through the elected and responsible representatives of the workers in the respective industries and of the workers* as a whole. The Socialist Party advocates the es- _ 30 _ .1 |