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Here are 7,000,000 comrades in an organized, international, world-
wide, revolutionary movement. Here is a tremendous human force. It
must be reckoned with. Here is power. And here is romance--romance
so colossal that it seems to be beyond the ken of ordinary mortals.
These revolutionists are swayed by great passion. They have a keen
sense of personal right, much of reverence for humanity, but little
reverence, if any at all, for the rule of the dead. They refuse to
be ruled by the dead. To the bourgeois mind their unbelief in the
dominant conventions of the established order is startling. They
laugh to scorn the sweet ideals and dear moralities of bourgeois
society. They intend to destroy bourgeois society with most of its
sweet ideals and dear moralities, and chiefest among these are those
that group themselves under such heads as private ownership of
capital, survival of the fittest, and patriotism--even patriotism.
Such an army of revolution, 7,000,000 strong, is a thing to make
rulers and ruling classes pause and consider.
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