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Jack London. Revolution, and Other Essays
Revolution, and Other Essays
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REVOLUTION
THE SOMNAMBULISTS
THE DIGNITY OF DOLLARS
GOLIAH
THE GOLDEN POPPY
THE SHRINKAGE OF THE PLANET
THE HOUSE BEAUTIFUL
THE GOLD HUNTERS OF THE NORTH
FOMÁ GORDYÉEFF
THESE BONES SHALL RISE AGAIN
THE OTHER ANIMALS
THE YELLOW PERIL
WHAT LIFE MEANS TO ME
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Jack London
Published by Good Press, 2022
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And what can the capitalist class say? Grant the incapacity of the working-class. Grant that the indictment and the argument of the revolutionists are all wrong. The 7,000,000 revolutionists remain. Their existence is a fact. Their belief in their capacity, and in their indictment and their argument, is a fact. Their constant growth is a fact. Their intention to destroy present-day society is a fact, as is also their intention to take possession of the world with all its wealth and machinery and governments. Moreover, it is a fact that the working-class is vastly larger than the capitalist class.
The revolution is a revolution of the working-class. How can the capitalist class, in the minority, stem this tide of revolution? What has it to offer? What does it offer? Employers’ associations, injunctions, civil suits for plundering of the treasuries of the labour-unions, clamour and combination for the open shop, bitter and shameless opposition to the eight-hour day, strong efforts to defeat all reform, child-labour bills, graft in every municipal council, strong lobbies and bribery in every legislature for the purchase of capitalist legislation, bayonets, machine-guns, policemen’s clubs, professional strike-breakers and armed Pinkertons—these are the things the capitalist class is dumping in front of the tide of revolution, as though, forsooth, to hold it back.
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