WHY REVOLUTION? . t to be choked down with an extra piece of bread, even if it be JS no • · d · I b tt red That is why there JS more conscious an active revo t . uthe •n·dustrial centres, of better-situated Europe than in backward m CJ .. f f f Asi nd Africa. The spmt o man orever yearns or greater com- fo; ~d freedom, and it is the masses who are the truest bearers ~f thi incentive to further advancement. The hope of modern 1 stociacy to forestall revolution by throwing a fatter bone to the i ~er now and then is illusory and baseless. The new policies of c~pital may seem 'to appease labour for a while, but its onward march cannot be stopped by such makeshifts. The abolition of capitalism is inevitable, in spite of all schemes and resistance, and it will be accomplished only by revolution. Can the individual worker accomplish any.thing against the big corporation ? Can a small labour union compel the large employer to gmqt its demands ? The capitalist class is organised to fight against labour. · It stands to reason· that a revolution can be fought successfully only when the workers are united, when they are organised throughout the land ; when the prol~tariat of all countries will make a joint effort, for capital is international and the masters always combine against labour in every big issue. That is why, for instance, the plutocracy of the whole world turned against the Russian Rev~lution. As \ong as the people of Russia meant only to abolish the Tsar, ·international capital did not interfere : it did not care what political form Russia would have, as long as the government would be bourgeois and capitalistic. But as soon as the. Revolution attempted to do away with the system of capitalism, the governments and the bourgeoisie of every land combined to crush it. They saw in it- a menace to the continuance of their own mastery . . Keep. that well in mind, my friend. Because there are revolutro~s and revolutions. Some revolutions change only the governmental form by putting in a new set of rulers in place of the old. ~hese a~e political revolutions, ~nd as such they often meet with little resistance. B~t a revolution that aims to abolish the entire syst em of .wage slavery must also do away with the power of one ciass to oppress another. That is, it is not any more a mere change 0 rulers, of government, not a political revolution but one that seeks to a!te~ the whole character of society. That' would be a social re~o utt~n .. As such it would have to fight not only government ~n capitalism, but it would also meet with the opposition of popular ignorance and · d' capitalism. PreJu ice, of those who believe in government and How is it then to come about ? 45 B·bhoteca G ro Bla'lCO
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