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“...solve anything, and everyone was free to construe the
same to his own liking. The Russian Socialist paper Iskra
called it for that reason the caoutchouc resolution. The
resolution read:
In a modern democratic State the conquest of the public
povyer by the proletariat cannot be the result of a coup de
main; it must be the result of a long and painful work of pro-
letarian organization on the economic and political fields, of
the physical and moral regeneracy of the laboring class, and of
the gradual conquest of municipalities and legislative assem-
blies.
But in countries where the governmental power is cen-
tralized, it cannot be conquered fragmentarily.
The accession of an isolated Socialist to a capitalist gov-
ernment cannot be considered as the normal beginning of the
conquest of political power, but only as an expedient, imposed,
transitory, and exceptional.
Whether, in a particular case, the political situation neces-...”
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