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Bertrand Russell. Roads to Freedom: Socialism, Anarchism, and Syndicalism
Roads to Freedom: Socialism, Anarchism, and Syndicalism
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INTRODUCTION
I. MARX AND SOCIALIST DOCTRINE
II. BAKUNIN AND ANARCHISM
III. THE SYNDICALIST REVOLT
IV. WORK AND PAY
V. GOVERNMENT AND LAW
VI. INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS
VII. SCIENCE AND ART UNDER SOCIALISM
VIII. THE WORLD AS IT COULD BE MADE
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Bertrand Russell
Published by Good Press, 2020
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The materialistic interpretation of history is used to answer such charges as that Communism is anti-Christian. 'The charges against Communism made from a religious, a philosophical, and, generally, from an ideological standpoint, are not deserving of serious examination. Does it require deep intuition to comprehend that man's ideas, views and conceptions, in one word, man's consciousness, changes with every change in the conditions of his material existence, in his social relations, and in his social life?'
The attitude of the Manifesto to the State is not altogether easy to grasp. 'The executive of the modern State,' we are told, 'is but a Committee for managing the common affairs of the whole bourgeoisie.' Nevertheless, the first step for the proletariat must be to acquire control of the State. '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 of democracy. 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, i.e., of the proletariat organized as the ruling class; and to increase the total of productive forces as rapidly as possible.'
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