Labor-union Socialism and Socialist Labor-unionism

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C. H. Kerr, 1912 - 96 стор.

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Сторінка 42 - Instead of the conservative motto, " A fair day's wages for a fair day's work," we must inscribe on our banner the revolutionary watchword, " Abolition of the wage system.
Сторінка 74 - But this does not imply that I propose making an individual law-breaker of myself and butting my head against the stone wall of existing property laws. That might be called force, but it would not be that. It would be mere weakness and folly.
Сторінка 74 - He retains absolutely no respect for the property "rights" of the profit-takers. He will use any weapon which will win his fight. He knows that the present laws of property are made by and for the capitalists. Therefore he does not hesitate to break them.
Сторінка 74 - I haven't got it, and so I am law-abiding under protest — not from scruple — and bide my time. Here let me say that for 'the same reason I am opposed to sabotage and to "direct action." I have not a bit of use for the "propaganda of the deed.
Сторінка 74 - If I had the force to overthrow these despotic laws I would use it without an instant's hesitation or delay, but I haven't got it, and so I am law-abiding under protest — not from scruple — and bide my time. Here let me say that for 'the same reason I am opposed to sabotage and to "direct action.
Сторінка 75 - ... it To the extent that the working class has power based upon class consciousness, force is unnecessary; to the extent that power is lacking, force can only result in harm.
Сторінка 59 - To win the demands made on the industrial field, it is absolutely necessary to control the government, as experience shows strikes to have been lost through the interference of courts and militia. The same functions of government, controlled by a class-conscious working class, will be used to inspire confidence and compel the wheels of industry to move in spite of the devices and stumbling blocks of the capitalists.
Сторінка 65 - It has no concern with the numberless social reforms which the capitalists are now preaching in order to save their miserable profit system. Old age pensions are not Socialism. The workers had much better fight for higher wages and shorter hours. Old age pensions under the present government are either charity doled out to paupers, or bribes given to voters by politicians.
Сторінка 74 - The Communist (Socialist) revolution is the most radical rupture with traditional property relations; no wonder that its development involves the most radical rupture with traditional ideas." As a revolutionist I can have no respect for capitalist property laws, nor the least scruple about violating them. I hold all such laws to have been enacted through chicanery, fraud and corruption, with the sole end in view of dispossessing, robbing and enslaving the working class. But this does not imply that...
Сторінка 74 - If sabotage and direct action, as I interpret them, were incorporated in the tactics of the Socialist party, it would at once be the signal for all the agents provocateurs and police spies in the country to join the party and get busy.

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