The Labor enquirer., 1883-11-03
SOCIALISM.
A Condensed Account Of It---A
Lesson in Political
Economy.
Capital is Property Stolen From
Labor by Permission Of
the Law.
Agitate Among the People, Spread
the Light Among the
Masses.

Il sA~S f~eAt3AAs AsAAASA~t. SA~S
Masses.
Comrade Adolf Douai appeared befor'
the senate committee on labor and edu
cation on September 20, as an official rep
resentatiye of our party. His statement
was a short, solid, welEcomposed digest
of the principles and aims of socialism
The capitalistie press, represented by 9
number Of bloekhead reporters who &C.
knowledged that they were unable to
understand comrade Douai, suppressed
his testimony, asserting that the audi
ence had been Smiling" at pouai's re-
marks miserable, contemplate lie.
It is well worth translating part OF
Douai's remarks, which were published
in full in the New York Yolkszeitung:
"The socialistic labor party is well
established in the United States and in
Europe; in Germany and in France it
commands million voters each it was
founded by Marx and Lassalle, two sci
entists whose teachings stand unassailed
and undenied by the whole scientific
world. The entire modern political
economy is based upon Marx teachings.
He shows that the mode of production
in every age, governs the social, moral
and political status of mankind. The
capitalistic mode Of production COM
menced with the Reformation In Ger
many and the discovery of America
Marx was the first economist who sue
ceeded in explaining what is capital: it
is property stolen from labor by the per-
mission of law A change from one mode
of production to another has only taken
place through force and revolution. ALI
panaceas calculated to improve the con-
dition of society under the mode Of cap-
italistic production are ut plan. Not the
progressive, but generally the conserva,
tive elements cause the revolution the
late war against the south was not pre-
cipitated by the abolitionists, but by the
Political economy deals
with facts and conclusions. Marx took
great pains to first analyze facts and then
draws his conclusions therefrom. He
first investigated what was wealth, and
he found that it consisted in mercllan-
disc; merchandise has value of two DIFF
ferent kinds value of use and a value
of exchange. The measure of the value
of exchange is the utility merchandise
possesses for the individual desiring to
exchange it for some other merchandise,
The exchange takes place when the
buyer sees that he would consume more
time in producing certain kind of mer-
chandise than the individual offering it
for sale; consequently tits proven that
time is the measure of all values. Marx,
after establishing this fact, asks why it
Is that the producer does not receive an
equivalent for his product in wages. No
other economist has ever explained this.
Marx analyzes that merchandise is COM
posed of raw material, labor and capital
invested. tits almost generally believed
that labor does receive an equivalent.
Marx shows that labor produces enough |
in six hours to meet all its wants, but
capital csmpels it to work from twelve to
sixteen hours, and the surplus SO pro-
1uced is thrown upon the market to be
'speculated" with. In order to be able
10 do so, labor had to be divested of all
its natural rights. Marx shows historic
lilly how the means of life and produc-
ion had been taken away from the la
oorer until he was entirely enslaved by
;he capitalist. To hide the real facts,
sham economists invented the ridiculous
theory of supply and demand" it can
De shown by facts and figures that hu-
nan laws had always falsified and eoun-
;erfeited the law of supply and demand
md diverted its consequences. Capital
loes not assist in producing anything,
ind vet it secures the lions share at the
distribution of the product; no inventor
,r discoverer has ever earned the fruits
If his toll, Inventions and discoveries
ire the work of generations, and there
ore belong to mankind at large. In al
contests between capital and labor the
aborer is in the right. Capital does not
,nly oppose labor, but one capitalist is
lighting the others. The time will come
when this state of affairs will cease, and
apital will be the property Of society.
70 attain such state of affairs the social
site labor party was organized. Before
he ideal could be realized, the socialists
trive to carry out their demands.
When the socialists will have carried
he day. they will establish the Referen-
lum and the initiative, the only rational
ystem by which laws may be made and
elected by the people directly, and not
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