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“...WITH DE LEON SINCE 89.
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"Whereas, the said clausesapplicable, perhaps, in coun-
tries not yet wholly freed from feudal institutions^were adopted
under conditions both in France and in the Paris Congress
itself, that justify erroneous conclusions on the nature of the
class struggle, the character of capitalist governments, and
the tactics that are imperative upon the proletariat in the pur-
suit of its campaign to overthrow the capitalist system in
countries, which, like the United States of America, have
wholly wiped out feudal institutions; therefore, be it
Resolved, First, That the said Kautsky Resolution be and
the same is hereby repealed as a principle of general Socialist
tactics;
Second, That, in fully developed capitalist countries, like
America, the working class cannot, without betrayal of the
cause of the proletariat, fill any political office other than they
conquer for and by themselves.
That De Leons vote alone was cast in favor of this clear-
cut resolution demonstrates...”
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“...maturity by him, let us keep it a
terror to its enemies and a buckler to its friends.
As Marx in his exile in England, in his time the highest
developed capitalist nation in the world, found the conditions
necessary for a complete and critical analysis of capitalist
production, and by his great work, Capital, was able to
point out to less industrially developed countries the methods
of capitalist advancement, so De Leons residence in the met-
ropolis of the New World, where capitalism, unhampered by
feudal restraints, was able to press forward to the complete
conquest of social and political powers, enabled him to see
the effects of capitalist advancement and triumph.
As the highest industrially developed country holds up a
mirror to those which are still backward, so De Leons work
for the Socialist movement in America will make him not
only a national but an international character. The healthy
growth of movements in the British Isles, Australia and
other English-speaking countries, along the...”
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“...which at three International meetings
was a voice crying in the wilderness, Prepare ye the wayl
will swell into louder and louder tones, and those who ignor-
ed the lessons he taught and who heeded not his warnings,
will come more and more to recognize his pre-eminent posi-
tion in the movement for working class emancipation, and
his teachings will influence and sway the aroused proletariat
for years to come.
The conceit that numbers gathered under a Socialist po-
litical banner to overthrow feudal restraints or work out
bourgeois reforms, is sufficient, has ended with millions of
workers in the trenches, fighting each other and dying for
capitalist victories. The pity of it is that this Daniel, who
read and interpreted the handwriting on the wall for parlia-
mentarianism, did not live to see the social catastrophe into
which the jingoist, office-holding, cabinet-filling political
Socialists had led the proletariat, and to draw with trenchant
and inspiring pen the lessons that flow from...”
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