Western Clarion
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issued: 2016-07-19
issued: 1920-06-16
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note: ■ U.' I \ V'' I i)y» - 0^ A Journal of CURRENT EVENTS Official Organ of THE SOCIALIST PARTY OF CANADA HISTORY ECONOMICS PHILOSOPHY Number 821. Twice a Month VANCOUVER, B. C, JUNE 16th, 1920 FrVE CENTS Manitoba Provincial Election SOCIALIST PARTY OF CANADA, LOCAL (WINNIPEG) No. 3 IT is no uncommon thing to meet with the individual zealot in the Socialist movement who is obsessed with the idea that there is more than one Socialist Tarty in the field, either in Canada or elsewhere. Such individiial is, as a rule, quite sure that it is his heaven-ordained mission to brush away such trifling differences as may exist between these various Socialist Parties and thus happily bring about such a condition of brotherly unity and solidarity as to weld their erstwhile puny and semi-futile efforts into an overwhelming and world-conquering force. Occasonally evidence comes to us indicating that this thirst for unity has gone beyond the mere infection or an individual, here and there. Now and again we hear of local organizations of Socialists demanding in thunder-tones that unity be the watchword and battle-cry. As in the case of the individual, these demands are made without rhyme or reason, for the very simple fact that neither poetic fancy nor the logic of science can force a condition of unity where Ihe elements that make for such a condition are lacking. The Socialist movement of the world is essentially a revolutionary movement of the working class. Its purpose is to overthroAv the present capitalist control of industry and appropriation of its products and setting up in Ms place working class control and appropriation thereof. The revolutionary action of the working class against the capitalist class presupposes a thorough and complete understanding of the capitalist system and its method of exploitation. In fact the revolutionary movement is unthinkable without this understanding. What is termed the Marxian analysis of capital and capitalist production, affords the basis of…
note: Titled The Western Clarion from June 18, 1904 to June 1, 1907; titled Western Clarion thereafter.
has type: Newspapers
spatial: Vancouver (B.C.)
is shown at: 10.14288/1.0318922
language: English
lat: 49.2611110
long: -123.1138890
provider: Vancouver : University of British Columbia Library
publisher: Vancouver, B.C. : The Socialist Party of Canada
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is part of: BC Historical Newspapers
source: Original Format: Royal British Columbia Museum. British Columbia Archives.
type: Text