Montana news. [volume] (Lewistown, Mont.) 1904-191?, 1905-09-06
AReVieW on
Party Tactics

the triumph of which will abolish all
classes and all class in Justice, i call
it simply justice.
l will not give an exhaustive an
alysis of the capitalist class, neither
of the working class, nor will / at
tempt an exhaustive analysis of the
capitalist system; for these read,
The Capitalist Class" and The
Working Class" by Karl Kautsky,
and Capital" by Karl Marx.
l base this article on the facts of
the irrepressible conflict between the
capitalist class and the working class
the inevitable collapse of capitalism
and the question, how to bring about
the triumph of the working class,
and of Socialism. l analyze con-
stitutions and platforms, state, ma
tional, ETC., to show the tenderness
within the Socialist party, their
causes, and the remedy. Bear in
mind there are exceptions to many,
many rules, and / show what may
be expected from individual mem
bers of class as a rule; if one does
not show these characteristics, he is
an exception, but it is evident we can
not build on exceptions.
The Socialist party never has had
any defined tactics or strategy.
The only thing by which the So
cialist party could ever justify its
existence seperate from the S. l.. p. :,
which was formed about ten years
before it, was its attitude on the ques-
tions of ownership of the party press,
on trade unions, and on state auton-
omy. If it is wrong on these, the
party has no right to exist. My in
vestigations cover these points.
This article on account of lack of
time to prepare it is intended more
as series of suggestions to stimu-
late investigation than as absolute
proof of the position taken therein.
Let us begin where the present
capitalist system of production be-
gins at a stage of society in which
we find free laborers who have no
means of self-employment, and moth
ing to sell but their labor power (ca-
pacity to labor) which must be sold
to the capitalists at the market price
as fixed by supply and demand. In
which the laborer has become a COM
modify along with grain, crockery,
cloth, etc. Under normal condi-
tions the price of a commodity is
equal to its value. The value of a
commodity is determined by the
amount of necessary social ls br i,
takes to produce it, e. g., two com
modities that it takes the same
amount of necessary social labor to
produce are of equal value.
Now, labor power, being a com.
modify, under normal conditions,
its price (wages) is equal to its
value which is the amount of sociaI
labor necessary to produce it, which,
in turn, is the amount of labor nee.
essary to produce the means of sub.
sistence to maintain the laborer.
If a laborer can produce in two
hours value equal to that of the
means of subsistence for one day
(Which is to say, the means of sub.
ststence for one day can be produced
in two hours he will have produced
the value of his labor power-his
own wages. Now if he works eigh,
hours more, he will produce -four
times as much, which, because he
has sold his labor power to the cap,
italist, belongs to the capitalist whose
capital is expanded by that amount
Capital expands by robbing the la.
borers of their product in the field
of industry through the laws of ex
change; ]. e., through the fact tha
labor's value in use is that it will
produce more value than it has
while its exchange value is like tha
of other commodities, the amount o.
labor socially necessary for its pro
duction.