And the petty bourgeois protests against this. He protests as the representative of a class which is decaying irrevocably, which is hopeless about its future, a defeated and cowardly class. The conscious worker is immeasurably far from this standpoint. He will not allow his consciousness to be clouded by such snivel ings, however sincere and heartfelt they may be. We workers and the great mass of small owners, too, live a life filled with unbearable oppression and suffering.
Life is more difficult for our generation than it was for our fathers.
Rut in one respect we are much more fortunate than our fathers. We have learnt and are learning rapidly to fight. And to fight not singly as did the best of our fathers and not for deceitful bourgeois slogans, but for our own slogans, the slogans of our class. We fight better than our fathers. Our children will fight still better and they will win.