The workers of the world, as a
class, are fighting the capitalists of the world, as a class. The
so-called great middle class is a growing anomaly in the social
struggle. It is a perishing class (wily statisticians to the
contrary), and its historic mission of buffer between the capitalist
and working-classes has just about been fulfilled. Little remains
for it but to wail as it passes into oblivion, as it has already
begun to wail in accents Populistic and Jeffersonian-Democratic. The
fight is on. The revolution is here now, and it is the world's
workers that are in revolt.
Naturally the question arises: Why is this so? No mere whim of the
spirit can give rise to a world-revolution. Whim does not conduce to
unanimity. There must be a deep-seated cause to make 7,000,000 men
of the one mind, to make them cast off allegiance to the bourgeois
gods and lose faith in so fine a thing as patriotism. There are many
counts of the indictment which the revolutionists bring against the
capitalist class, but for present use only one need be stated, and it
is a count to which capital has never replied and can never reply.
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