Socialism Versus the State

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C. H. Kerr co-operative, 1919 - Broj stranica: 229
 

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Stranica 17 - We have seen above that the first step in the revolution by the working class is to raise the proletariat to the position of ruling class, to win the battle for democracy.
Stranica 18 - ... makes itself the ruling class, and, as such, sweeps away by force the old conditions of production, then it will, along with these conditions, have swept away the conditions for the existence of class antagonisms and of classes generally, and will thereby have abolished its own supremacy as a class.
Stranica 26 - Of course, in the beginning this cannot be effected except by means of despotic inroads on the rights of property and on the conditions of bourgeois production ; by means of measures, therefore, which appear economically insufficient and untenable, but which, in the course of the movement, outstrip themselves, necessitate further inroads upon the old social order and are unavoidable as a means of entirely revolutionizing the mode of production.
Stranica 16 - The society that will organize production on the basis of a free and equal association of the producers will put the whole machinery of state where it will then belong: into the Museum of Antiquities, by the side of the spinning wheel and the bronze axe...
Stranica 148 - The proletariat seizes the public power, and by means of this transforms the socialized means of production, slipping from the hands of the bourgeoisie, into public property.
Stranica 18 - Nevertheless, in the most advanced countries, the following will be pretty generally applicable: 1 . Abolition of property in land and application of all rents of land to public purposes. 2. A heavy progressive or graduated income tax. 3 . Abolition of all right of inheritance. 4. Confiscation of the property of all emigrants and rebels. 5 . Centralization of credit in the hands of the state, by means of a national bank with state capital and an exclusive monopoly. 6. Centralization of the means...
Stranica 17 - These measures will of course be different in different countries. Nevertheless in the most advanced countries the following will be pretty generally applicable: 1 . Abolition of property in land and application of all rents of land to public purposes. 2. A heavy progressive or graduated income tax. 3. Abolition of all rights of inheritance. 4. Confiscation of the property of all emigrants and rebels. 5. Centralization of credit in the hands of the state, by means of a national bank with State capital...
Stranica 17 - The proletariat will use its political supremacy, to wrest, by degrees, all capital from the bourgeoisie, to centralize all instruments of production in the hands of the state, ie of the proletariat organised as the ruling class; and to increase the total 'of productive forces as rapidly as possible.
Stranica 129 - They know that in order to work out their own emancipation, and along with it that higher form to which present society is irresistibly tending by its own economical agencies, they will have to pass through long struggles, through a series of historic processes, transforming circumstances and men.
Stranica 18 - When, in the course of development, class distinctions have disappeared, and all production has been concentrated in the hands of a vast association of the whole nation, the public power will lose its political character.

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