Western Clarion
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contributor: Pritchard, W.A.
issued: 2018-11-22
issued: 1917-03-01
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note: . The Official Organ of THEisOCIALIST PARTY OF No. 790] Vancouver, B. C, March, 1917 [Month 5c. When, in 1769, James Watt made a steam engine which THE LESSON * could be harnessed OP THE to the use of man, PARIS he dealt Feudalism" COMMUNE its death blow. OF 1871 The development of that machine forced its users to radically alter their political structure. From the beginning of the 18th century, therefore, society has been undergoing a gradual but continuous change, with revolutionary outbursts here and there. France has been remarkable for these revolutionary periods. From 1789 to 1871 neither Empire nor Republic were very secure. After the breakdown of the Feudal regime, ere the new order could establish itself firmly, governments were overthrown with singular ease. But after each revolutionary or counter-revolutionary movement the proletariat had to be reckoned with. Like a maddened blood-hound held in leash at the first opportunity it was at the throats of its masters. The first of these slave uprisings was without class basis. It was certainly promoted by the existing class relations, but as Marx points out, the proletariat did not-fight its enemies, but the enemy of itsf enemies And while there was considerable class activity shown by some wage slaves in the affairs of European nations, particularly during the middle of the 19th century, the great mass of them lacking a class basis for their agitation were as clay, in the hands of their wily masters. However, during the stormy days of 1848 appeared the Communist Manifesto, and from then dates an ever growing concept of working class political needs. The Communist League was broken up, but in 1864- "The Workingmen's International-" was formed, and in Paris, late in 1869. a number of able proletarians set themselves the task of instructing their fellow slaves. The ambitious program of Napoleon III., Emperor of France in 1870, does not concern us here. However, tricked into war by Bismarck, disaster followed disa…
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spatial: Vancouver (B.C.)
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language: English
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publisher: Vancouver, B.C. : The Socialist Party of Canada
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