PREPARATION Because of this the proletarian struggle is the concern of every d all sincere men and women should therefore be at · the one,. anof labour in its great task. Indeed, though only the toilers ICl'Vl:complish the work of emancipation, they need the aid of other ~al groups. For you must remember that the revolution faces :C 1 difficult problem of reorganising the world and building a new •:msation-a work that will require the greatest revolutionary ~tegrity and the intelligent co-operation of all well-i:neaning 3:nd liberty-loving elements. We already know that the social revolution is not a matter of abolishing capitalism only. We might turn out capitalism as feudalism was got rid of, and still remain slaves as before. !~stead of being, as now, the bondmen of private monopoly we might become the servants of State capitalism, as has happened to the people in Russia, for instance, and as conditions are developing in Italy and other lands. The social revolution it must never be forgotten, is not to alter one form of subjection for another, but is to do away with everything that can enslave and oppress you. A political revolution may be carried to a successful issue by a conspirative minority, putting one ruling faction in place of another. But the social revolution is not a mere political change : it is a fundamental economic, ethical, and cultural transformation. A conspirative minority or political party undertaking such a work m~t meet with the active and passive opposition of the great maJority and therefore degenerate into a system of dictatorship and terror. In the face of a hostile majority the social revolution is doomed to failure from its very beginning. It means, then, that the first preparatory wo~k of the revolution consists in winning over the masses at large m favour of the revolution and its objects, winning them over, at _least, to _the extent of neutralising them, of turning them from a~t1ve enemies to passive sympathisers, so that they may not fight agamst the revolution even if they do not fight for it. bc The actual, positive work of the social revolution must of course, C • d ' And a[:1e on by the toilers themselves, by the lai;>ouringpeople. h .;re let us bear in mind that it is not only the factory hand :.C O . :~>ngsto labour but the farm worker as well. Some radicals aim 1~c_med.to lay to? much stress on the industrial proletariat, couW dignfnng the existence of the agricultural toiler. Yet what ture is t~ act?ry worker accomplish without the farmer? Agricul- , the co e pnrn<!l.s?urce of life, and the city would starve but for fann tbotry. It 1s. idle to compare the industrial worker with the a urer or discuss their relative value. Neither can do with57 B blloteca G ro B1a'lco
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