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From The First Day To This, Sheer Greed Was The Driving Spirit Of Civilization.

People Have Learned By Bitter Experience That The "european Fraternal Union Of Peoples" Cannot Be Achieved By Mere Phrases And Pious Wishes, But Only By Profound Revolutions And Bloody Struggles; They Have Learned That The Question Is Not That Of A Fraternal Union Of All European Peoples Under A Single Republican Flag, But Of An Alliance Of The Revolutionary Peoples Against The Counter-revolutionary Peoples, An Alliance Which Comes Into Being Not On Paper, But Only On The Battlefield.

The Anarchists Put The Thing Upside Down. They Declare That The Proletarian Revolution Must Begin By Doing Away With The Political Organization Of The State. But To Destroy It At Such A Moment Would Be To Destroy The Only Organism By Means Of Which The Victorious Proletariat Can Assert Its Newly-conquered Power, Hold Down Its Capitalist Adversaries, And Carry Out That Economic Revolution Of Society Without Which The Whole Victory Must End In A New Defeat And A Mass Slaughter Of The Workers Similar To Those After The Paris Commune.

All History Has Been A History Of Class Struggles, Of Struggles Between Exploited And Exploiting, Between Dominated And Dominating Classes At Various Stages Of Social Development.

By Bourgeoisie Is Meant The Class Of Modern Capitalists, Owners Of The Means Of Social Production And Employers Of Wage Labor. By Proletariat, The Class Of Modern Wage Laborers Who, Having No Means Of Production Of Their Own, Are Reduced To Selling Their Labor Power In Order To Live.