Look At The Paris Commune. That Was

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.

The Slave Frees Himself When, Of All The Relations Of Private Property, He Abolishes Only The Relation Of Slavery And Thereby Becomes A Proletarian; The Proletarian Can Free Himself Only By Abolishing Private Property In General.

All The Other Large And Small Nationalities And Peoples Are Destined To Perish Before Long In The Revolutionary World Storm. The Next World War Will Result In The Disappearance From The Face Of The Earth Not Only Of Reactionary Classes And Dynasties, But Also Of Entire Reactionary Peoples. And That, Too, Is A Step Forward.

Firstly, The Farmers, The Most Stupid Set Of People In Existence, Who, Clinging To Feudal Prejudices, Burst Forth In Masses, Ready To Die Rather Than Cease To Obey Those Whom They, Their Fathers And Grandfathers, Had Called Their Masters; And Submitted To Be Trampled On And Horse-whipped By.

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