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.
The capitalist class is as blind to-day to the menace of the
revolution as it was blind in the past to its own God-given
opportunity. It cannot see how precarious is its position, cannot
comprehend the power and the portent of the revolution.
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