Source: The Call, 10 June 1920, p. 2 Transcribed: Ted Crawford HTML Markup: Brian Reid Note: A slightly different translation is also available. Public Domain: Marxists Internet Archive (2007). You may freely copy, distribute, display and perform this work; as well as make derivative and commercial works. Please credit “Marxists Internet Archive” as your source.
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During the first months that followed the German Revolution of
November, 1918, there arose a cry of “Socialization.” It was the
expression of the will of the masses to-give to the revolution a social meaning,
and not to let it stop at reshuffling of persons, or at a simple transformation
of the political system. Kautsky warned the public against a ... (From: Marxists.org.)
Source: The Call, 17 June 1920, p. 8 Transcribed: Ted Crawford HTML Markup: Brian Reid Note: A slightly different translation is also available. Public Domain: Marxists Internet Archive (2007). You may freely copy, distribute, display and perform this work; as well as make derivative and commercial works. Please credit “Marxists Internet Archive” as your source.
It goes without saying that legal expropriation will also take
place during the transition from capitalism to Socialism. The political power of
the proletariat will take all the measures that are necessary for the
suppression of exploitation. It will not content itself with limiting the former
employers right of free exploitation by regularizing wages, hours of lab... (From: Marxists.org.)
Written: 1919; Version: Originally published as 'Die Sozialisierung' in Die Internationale, vol. one, nos 13-14, September 1919, pp. 254-259. French translation published in Le Phare (The Beacon) No. 7, 1st March 1920. This French translation reprinted in (Dis)continuté Issue 7 July 1999, from which this translation has been made. A slightly different translation is also available; Transcription/HTML Markup: Greg Adargo.
Le Phare Introduction: Anton Pannekoek is one of
the best theorists of international socialism. He belongs to the Dutch
Communist Party. We are publishing a translation of one of his most
recent and topical articles which appeared in German in the Marxist
journal Die Internationale, founded by Rosa Luxemburg a... (From: Marxists.org.)
In reading the newspapers, we find the two names mentioned above frequently put side by side. Nay, we find them also associated with the terms Communism and Nihilism, as though these four “isms” had the closest relation to each other. This is a mistake. Socialism and Anarchism are opposites which have nothing in common but their appurtenance to Social Science. Socialists and Anarchists as such are enemies. They pursue contrary aims, and the success of the former will destroy forever the fanatical hopes of the latter.
It is true that in theories, both are thoroughly dissatisfied with the present state of human society and its politics, and that they severely criticize almost all the economical and political constitutions ... (From: TheAnarchistLibrary.org.)
In answer to our comrade Blackwell's suggestion and in
default of someone else beginning that free discussion he speaks of, I wish to note
down a few thoughts suggested by reading the clauses of the Anarchist Congress at
Valentia, as stated by our comrade; premising that I do so in no polemical spirit,
but simply giving my own thoughts and hopes for the future for what they may be
worth.
I will begin by saying that I call myself a Communist, and have no wish to qualify
that word by joining any other to it. The aim of Communism seems to me to be the
complete equality of condition for all people; and anything in a Socialist
direction which stops short of this is merely... (From: Marxists.org.)
1. THE SOCIAL IDEAL.
When we read the books of the official professors of social science on the
subject of Socialism and Anarchism, we are astonished to find how little the
sociologists, even those friendly to us, understand of the great scientific
revolution which Engels called the Development of Socialism from Utopia to
Science, a revolution now more than half a century old.
Scientific Socialism, as established by Marx and Engels, combined into a
harmonious unity two things which from the bourgeois point of view appeared to
be irreconcilable opposites: on the one hand dispassionate objectivity, science
indifferent to ideals, and on the other hand the passionately sought subjective
ideal of a better society. Those who do not ... (From: Marxists.org.)
The Socialism of William Morris
Slightly revised from a shorthand report of as lecture delivered at the Seamore Picture House, Glasgow, October 25th, 1915.
My subject tonight is “The Socialism of William Morris.” In ‘dealing with this subject, I may say a few things that will come as a surprise to many orthodox Socialists who may be present, and to strangers who know nothing about Socialism or the movement. What I shall say will not be from the standpoint of wishing to shock people, but from that of educating them. If what I say seems a little strange or new, therefore, my hearers should remember that, from time to time, we come up against facts and ideals which are strange. The strange, however,... (From: Marxists.org & RevoltLib.com.)
It is good, however much we may plume ourselves on our practicality, that is, I
suppose, on our setting out towards an end which we are likely to attain, to set
before us the actual end at which we aim. It is true that it is the custom of
very practical people to taunt those whose end is or seems to be a long
way off with being idealists: nevertheless I venture to think that without these
idealists practical people would be in a much worse plight than they now are; they
would have but a dull history of the past, a poor life in the present, and no hope
for the future; on the other hand the idealists in their turn would make a great
mistake if they were, in their vision of better things,... (From: Marxists.org.)
Source: Unsigned front page article by Sylvia Pankhurst, Workers’ Dreadnought, 28 July 1923; Transcribed: by Adam Buick; Proofread: by Chris Clayton 2006.
Socialism means plenty for all. We do not preach a gospel of want and scarcity, but of abundance.
Our desire is not to make poor those who to-day are rich, in order to put the poor in the place where the rich now are. Our desire is not to pull down the present rulers to put other rulers in their places.
We wish to abolish poverty and to provide abundance for all.
We do not call for limitation of births, for penurious thrift, and self-denial. We call for a great production that will supply all, and more than all the people can consume.
Such a great production is already possibl... (From: Marxists.org.)
If we examine the source of social wealth, we find that it resides exclusively in intelligence and labor. Indeed, it is through labor and intelligence that society lives and breathes, grows and develops, and if these two forces were to withdraw from it for even a single moment it would immediately dissolve and all its members would perish as if through a sudden catastrophe.
But these two forces can only act on the condition that a third element, inert in itself, serves as an instrument to sustain the life of society in the hands of the men of intelligence and labor. This element is the land. It would seem, then, that the land should belong to all members of society equally, who, through their combined efforts, would be able to exploi... (From: TheAnarchistLibrary.org.)
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