Workmen's advocate. (New Haven, Conn.) 1883-1891, 1890-07-19
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ma V A part OF the OOufgeOlsle IL ueslrous
* m of redressing social grievances, in order
to secure the continued existence Of
Nc bourgeois society.
re To this section belong economists,
~ philanthropists humanitarians, improv-
60 ers of the condition Of the working
% class, organizers of charity, members
of societies for the prevention of cruelty
to animals, temperance fanatics, hole
$50 and corner reformers of every imagin-
IA able kind. This form of Socialism has,
moreover been worked out into com
Bo. plete systems.
We NAV cite Proudhon's PhiloS0nhie
Ian de la MiSGre as an example of this form.
The socaistic bourgeois want all the
- advantages of modern social conditions
without the struggles and dangers neces-
- sarily resulting therefrom, They desire
the existing state of society minus its
revolutionary and disintegrating ele-
A ments They wish for bourgeoisie
Their without proletariat The bourgeoisle
.;o, naturally conceives the world in which
=, it is supreme to be the best; and bour
''''' geos socialism develops this comfortable
lail conception into various more or less
this complete systems, In requiring the
tim, proetariat to carry out such u system,
;n, and thereby to march straightway into
o., the social New jerusalem it but re-
quires in reality, that the proletariat
should remain within the bounds of
existing society, but should cast away
a, all its hateful ideas concerning the
Nc bourgeoisie.
A second and more practical, but less
h'o' systematic form of this socialism sought
at Ito depreciate every revolutionary move
ties. uent in the eyes of the working class
showing that no mere political reform
t only n change in the material condi-
ms of existence in economical rela-
The ms could be of any advantage to them.
victory changes in the material conditions
existence this form of Socialism,
pai" however by no means understands abo-
tn, Ition of the bourgeois relations OF pro-
~ ductlon, an abolition of the bourgeois
relations Of productlon,-an Abolition
( that can be effected only by arevoutlon
p
the continued existence of these rela-
tons; reforms, therefore. that in nc
respect affect the relations between
CAPITAL and labor, but, at the best,
lessen the cost and simplify the admins
trative work. of bourgeois government
bourgeois Socialism attains adequat,
expression, when, and only when, il
becomes mere figure of speech.
Free Trade: for the benefit of thu
working ca<3 Protective Duties: fo
the benefit of the working class. Prison
Reform: for the benefit of the working
class. This Is the last word and thu
only seriously meant word of bourgeoi
Socialism.
1t is summed up in the phrase; tn
. bourgeois is a bourgeois--for the beneti
of the working class
8. Critical Utoridn Socialism and Com
nHniSm.
We do not here refer to that litera
- ture which, in every great moder
revolution, has always given voice t
the demands of the proetariat, sue
as the writings of Babeuf and others.
The first direct attempts of the prole
tariat to attain its own ends made /
times of universal excitement, whe
feudal society was pelnB overthrow
these attempts nee, ssarily failed, OWN
to the then undeveloped state of tn
proletariat. as we'll as to the absence
the economic conditions for its emanc
patton, conditions that had yet to I
produced, and could be produced b
g.. the impending bourgeois epoch alon,
The revolutionary literature that accom-
panied these first movements of tn
proetariat had necessarily a reactionar
character 1t inc Heated universal ascot
cismsand social dwelling in its crude
form.
The Socialist and Communist system
properly SO called, those of st. Simo
Fourier. Owen and others, spring in
existence in the early undevelopt
period described above, of the strugg
between proetariat and bourgeost
(see section |. Bourgeosie and Prol
tariat)
The founders of these systems Sc
indeed, the class antagonisms as well
the action of the decomposing elemen
in the prevailing form of society. b
the proletariat, as yet i'll its intanc
offers to them the spectacle of ella
without any historical initiative or al
&. independent political movement.
Since the development of class ant
gonism keeps even pace with the d
velopment of industry, the eeonom
situation, as they find ii, does not as Y
offer to them the material conditio
for the emancipation of the proletarii
They the refor., search after new soc