International May Day and American Labor Day

International May Day and American Labor Day - A Holiday Expressing Working Class Emancipation Versus a Holiday Exalting Labor's Chains

During the period in history that the present generation is going through the struggle for supremacy between Capital and Labor is occupying a more and more prominent position at the front of the stage. Here in America the material conditions necessary for the triumph of Labor in this struggle,for the realization of Socialismare by far more ripe than in any other country. The old system of wealth production in small shops, with crude tools, by the application of the labor of one, two or a handful of workers, is practically extinct. Through the use of up-to-date improved machinery, through co-operation of thousands and sometimes tens of thousands of workers employed by one concern, and the consequent subdivision and specialization of labor enhancing its productivity; through capitalist concentration and amalgamation of individual concerns into corporations and trusts, eliminating waste of labor incidental to competition and anarchy in production, through all that the productivity of labor became plentiful to the point of being marvelous. After centuries of struggle society at last has within its grasp the means of assured, carefree existence and untrammeled progress. With regard to the power of the political State and the political rights of the people the historical development of the civilized nations was along the lines of concentration 2of political powers in the hands of an oligarchy, small in numbers, and finally in the person of a single individual, the political autocrat, while on the other hand the masses of the people were concentrating in the camp of the politically disfranchised and disinherited. In France, for instance, after a struggle running through a long series of generations, concentrating the political powers in fewer and fewer hands, the point of autocracy was finally reached. The former peers were reduced to the position of mere dependents and hangers-on at the court of the autocrat; the mass of the people, politically absolutely disinherited, could only bend its neck, and the autocrat, Louis XIV, with boots and spurs on and whip in hand, could proclaim haughtily and defiantly, ltat cest moi! (The government, it is I!) and could sway the destinies of the nation with the stroke of his pen. ......Buy Now (To Read More)

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Ebook Number: 54666
Author: Reinstein, Boris
Release Date: May 6, 2017
Format: eBook
Language: English