The Northwest worker. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1915-1917, 1916-04-13
By MARVIN SANFORD

IIbCIlN is not something ludI Is
given-it must be taken. 1t feeds on
struggle. Born of oppression, the de-
sire for liberty intelligently expresses
itself in a militant industrial and pol
itical movement for the freeing of the
people from the bondage of private
control of social necessities. Our mis-
sion as socialists is no less than the
achievement of human liberty by plac-
ing the peoples social control the soc
tally operated tools of production.
This is the Revolution. 1t is the cul-
mination of long struggle which re-
quires men and women of caliber for
its triumph; needs ballots with intelli-
gence and power behind them.
Putting into operation the economic
theory of Socialism while living under
an anti-social, capitahstic system, is,
of course, impossible. That is, you
cannot practice Socialism under Cap
itaiism, as our freinds the etfgmy
sometimes demands.
These facts are we'll known to Soc
ialists, but the purpose of this article
is to impress upon the socialist the
fact that there are in a sense certain
things which he processes to believe
that he can practice, and furthermore
: ,o+ &c +n ha t,sit1 II
of the Revolution and the liberation of
labor.
For instance, you as a socialist, will
admit that Man No. l shouldn't have
to DO Man No. 2's work. Suppose
Man No, to be L. (Labor), No. 2 to
be the c. Capitalist MASTERY. But SO
long as Brother c owns the things that
Brother L must use in order to sustain
life, and so long as the party Of the
first part controls the armies and nav
les and colleges and newspapers and
laws of the world to back him up in
the said ownership, just so long must
Brother l. do brother DPS work. Par
ty / and party 2 then form the con-
testants in the world class war, which
will be ended only by the equalization
Of the opportunities for productive
work and it's rewards. In the mean
time, the realization Of that aim calls
for education and organization of the
worlds workers to deal with the prob
lem Now arises the question: is a
Socialist consistent if he says, "Let
George do it, and takes no active part
in the necessary work that lies be
tween US and our liberty?
People Dent Know
Actually there are hundreds Of in
telligent people in this year Of our
Lord 1916 who don't know or realize
that we are in the midst Of a revou-
tion-a contest Of combating forces
arrayed against each other, the issue
of which is to decide whether we are
to go forward into the time of liberty
and classless society, or backward into
the dark ages and the wreck and
dissolution Of civilization and social
order. They don't see the band of
workers on the one hand battling for
the life of their class and its freedom,
and on the other hand the masters of
ur lives working only to root out from
the people all ideas of freedom, work
ing as the agent of plundering inter
ests, working as a thief Of the rights
Of men and women to labor and to live
and let live
Now the question is, in the fact of
this awful struggle, are we going to
lie down on the job or merely jabbe1
and bungle and hinder or are we going
to get down to REAL WORK on the
most inspiring job ever given to man
l<ind-that Of teaching the world that
our only hope is in the intelligent di-
rection of the industrial and politica
activities of the working class?
Privilege and Duty
Freedom will not run you down-it
must be gained gained through the
struggles and sacrifice of our owl
class. We must wiring the price Of