Now and then, rubbing his eyes, vigorously, an editor catches a
sudden glimpse of the revolution and breaks out in naive volubility,
as, for instance, the one who wrote the following in the Chicago
Chronicle: "American socialists are revolutionists. They know that
they are revolutionists. It is high time that other people should
appreciate the fact." A white-hot, brand-new discovery, and he
proceeded to shout it out from the housetops that we, forsooth, were
revolutionists. Why, it is just what we have been doing all these
years--shouting it out from the housetops that we are revolutionists,
and stop us who can.
The time should be past for the mental attitude: "Revolution is
atrocious. Sir, there is no revolution." Likewise should the time
be past for that other familiar attitude: "Socialism is slavery.
Sir, it will never be." It is no longer a question of dialectics,
theories, and dreams. There is no question about it. The revolution
is a fact. It is here now. Seven million revolutionists, organized,
working day and night, are preaching the revolution--that passionate
gospel, the Brotherhood of Man.
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