The Commonwealth. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1911-1914, 1913-11-13
THE TRIUMPH OF SOCIALISM
is CERTAIN.

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No Exclusive Road TO Freedom.
No; not by any exclusive methot
can the workers achieve their free
dom.
The revolution that releases labo
from its masters must include tn,
whole of humanity in its vision ant
purpose; else the revolution will fai
of its flood tide and its fulfillment.
Whether acting politically or direct
ly, the Socialist movement must aef
In unity and must be all embracing;
nothing can be left out of it's con
quering sweep, Its sucoorlng sym
pathies.
We cannot evade a single human
problem; the foundations we lay are
for the solution of all problems.
We cannot ignore the existing so
cial order; whether it be to use or
destroy institutions, we must first as
saut and possess It.
Must Capture the State.
The devotee of direct action can
not proceed as If the state were not,
any more than he can proceed as If
the mountains and the seas we're not;
the existing state must be conquered
before it can be supplanted with that
better national being which Socialism
proposes.
Whatever pa revolutions may have
done, the social revolution can take
no cross country rides; it must possess
itself of all the historic highways.
Man, when he really becomes man,
when he energies from the beast and
the jungle at least, when he blossoms
in social being and spiritual beauty,
will absorb all his past; he will dis
card nothing.
| think the capitalist mind, more
clearly than the mind of the Socialist,
discerns the logic and goal of labor's
liberation.
Freedom Feared by Masters.
With the animals instinct for dan
ger, he senses that freedom anywhere,
if it be actual, leads to freedom every
where.
And he clearly forecasts that every
step which labor takes toward the
ownership of its tools and it's decisions
is step toward the souls self own
ership-a step toward a complete
change in the whole mind and mood of
Thus he strives to prevent, or to
postpone or divert, the first emanci-
patory struggles.
He still imagines that, by one guile
or another, by one rgthlessness and
he can defeat or defect the
revolution.
But the self congratulation of the
capitalist is premature
Little comfort will capitalism final
ly get from the present informal dis
putes of the Socialist movement. The
expectation of disruption is based on
a false and superficial view on the
part of the merely onlooker.
More apparent than real, the dis
putes within the Socialist movement
will last but for a little season.
The extremes that will not meet will
prove Of small proportions; they will
go their Intellectual ways.
The New Despotism.
So far as America is concerned, the
most antagonistic extremes will like
ly merge in that deceptive program
for new despotism-the Progressive
party.
On the part of the Socialist, political
conquest will be discerned as the pro-
tector of the revolution, itself.
The sabotage of the Syndicalist will
be abandoned, not because capitalist
law and property are sacred or worthy
of respect, but because the soul of the
revolution is sacred, and not to be
profaned by the anarchic methods of
capitalist saVagery.
Socialism, led by its inner struggles
to a nobler self understanding will
thus purify itself and prevail unto the
coming of the commonwealth.
No Disruption.
No; there will be no disruption of
the Socialist movement.
There will be a uniting, not a part
ing, of ways There will be a syn
thesis, and not a division of the forces
that are making for the free society,
for the new earth, for the vaster man.
The bitterness, the distrust, the
calling of names, will give place to a
determined good will, a better under
standing.
Benedietions will take the place OF
cursings.
AS the approaching crisis of the
world, defines ITSELF it's deeps will call
for singIeness of proIetarian action
and purpose; and the response of the
workers will be resoIute and resonant
The revolution, before the opening
doors Of its great opportunity, vii
effect a marriage of destructive cour
age with constructive patience.
The differing revolutionary forces