The examiner., 1886-06-19

lated stealings and pickings from the prop what is not the fruit of ones own labor
 while there cannot be any other reasonable
 title to property than work. And thi
 list of hypocritical confusion of terms
 might be heightened ad libituna. In fact
 all institutions of society and law are now
 adays hypocritical, and demoralize tht public sense of truth and honesty
 It is the merit of Social Democracy te
 have established this new cognition anG
 science. It has cleared up what never
 could be explained by the old political econ omy; the cause of commercial crises; o1 the impoverishment of the majority ir every nation; of the enormous opposites 1 in the condition of men. It is no longer
 a marvel why there can be and are hundred
 fold millionaires here, and an abject pover- ty of mass of protetari0ns there, why commercial crises are spread likewise over republics and monarchies and despotical States, over protectionist and free trade
 countries, over Protestant, Catholic, and
 other communities; why all the Statesmen
 and wiseacres of the press are utterly un- ] able to suggest thorough remedy for con-
 mercial depressions and the division of
 mankind into a ruling class and ruled
 class, into allpowerful money kings and
 moneyed corporations on the one hand,
 and an immense majority of paupers. or
 what must ultimately become paupers, on l the other hand. This riddle is solved by l the school of Karl MdrI. The one great l cause of all the ruin of society and States
 is this, that labor never receives the full proceeds of it's product; but must, because l 1t IS disinherited, create capital for mi nOrity-the owners of means of labor. of 1 land, buildings, machines, money, etc., by creating surplus UGlAe, furnishing surplus
 labor, more labor than is paid for, working surplus time, more time than is required to defray the expenses Of it's own sustenance. And the only thorough remedy is not to work and produce more than what can be consumed by Lhe producers themselves.
 It is by working for wages, .. e., for less
 than the proceeds of our labor, by creating surplus ootue for people who might work,
 but do not work, and by thus creating priUate capital in their hands, that we ruin society and politics. On the contrary, by working only as much as is needed by all the useful workers, and by creating the necessary capital through our own contri- buttons and doing away with all private capitalism, can we put an end to all slavery, blood-sucking practices, revolutions, po- litical corruption and avoidable misery in general, and we can produce all the means Of true, universal and high education, and improve the universal morality and brotherhood of men.
 This, in nutshell, is the theory of Social Democracy. It must be added, that such a new state of things will be eff fected more by the natural development of economics than by our teachings The evils engendered by private capitalism are so formidable and growing in so rapid a proportion, and the wisdom of Statesmen" and self constituted rulers is so impotent, that society can nOt-continue in it's old ruts much longer. The anarchy of society and politics will, within perhaps, the nineteenth century of our era, have exhausted it's vitality and out of despair run into new issue, akin to the Socialist proposition. left in the world, though busted from the right place, that, once directed in the prop CT channels, complete renewal of society and constitutions may be brought about, without very violent and bloody convul- sions. The conviction once impressed up on majority of workers that private capi- talism is doomed to abolition, together with wages, slavery, corruption and class dominion, a new form of social life and political practice may be inangurated al most without severe throes of birth. What alone is needed in the meantime is enllght- enment of the working masses (workers, both with mind and body) about the doom of private capitalism, doom Of its own make, which cannot be prevented. From this short exposition it may be seen that Socialism is the most decided enemy to
 both the Anarchism of the capitalistlc class, and the Anarchism of those revolu- tionists who have been rendered more or less crazy by the cruelties and revolting in- justice of our present Flaw and order" In fact. this latter class of Anarchists hate us
 more than they hate the other class of An archists, or anybody. It they were paid l by Bismark, or Cz0r Alexander III., or l Jug Gould for destroying our organization l they could not more efficiently go about it | ALo II, Io oip cfu1tifV
 teachings, and oice versa. They conspire with the least enlightened and most pliant elements against us, the only apostles of a l better future.
 l We do not in the least deny that we have little hopes for the entirely peaceful re-
 newal of society and politics, and that we may have to fight for the redemption of the working class from the threatening com plete thraldom. But that war must be forced upon us-we try our best efforts to l avoid it, and though this may be impossi- ble in most of the European States, and wherever freedom of speech and of the press the right to peacefully assemble and organ ize, and universal suffrage (inclusive ot
 the suffrage of women) are not curtailed by existing laws. We are fully outspoken il
 our ideas and aims, all our working fol redemption is above board, we shun secre
 organization for our purposes. Our plat !. form of principles, means what it professes
 no more, no less. We, therefore, protest against being con , founded and in any W ay identified with An , archists of any type; we are the lmplaca0l enemies of all anarchism. And, if we ar sometimes designated as Coaanaunists, w , | wish it to be understood that our Commu
 nism is different from all other Commu , nism in that we demand nothing in commo, but capital-the great means of labor( land buildings, machines, money) because al
 capital has been and is partly gratuitou
 gift of Nature to all, partly being create . by the labor of all mankind, and nothin can reasonably be private property but tn :, full proceeds of one's own labor, as agree . upon by common compromise. Our Con # munism is not sectarian, but truly unive # sal, and compatible with the highest degre ;, - of liberty which is at all attainable. Th a most correct term for our Communls1 Q would, perhaps, be Collectiuism, as it Q 2 now called in France. As regards u d term Nihilisna, we have to state that, eve ss in Russia, what was, half a century az v, stigmatized as Nil ilism, is no longer in e. y istence, but supplanted by either practic y Anarchisna of propagandistic kind, if revolutionary conspiracy of all classes, ,,s far as their reflection has begun.
 Finally, as may be gathered from o' :" platform, we are propagandistic organ D zation which goes hand in hand with u
 great labor movement that is now refe I'd menting the society of the world; and ' ~ s shall be revolutionists only when forced |