"The avowed socialists are only an insignificant number when compared with those who are Socialist without knowing it. The former are falsely looked upon as dangerous men; the danger lies with the latter. The conscious socialist looks upon every event as the causal result of existing and former conditions ; he bears no personal enmity to the capitalist ; knowing perfectly well that the individual acts not by his or her own volition and free will, but under the general social laws : the force of circumstances and conditions. The unconscious socialist on the other hand (and this includes everybody who is not an avowed socialist) view everything from the standpoint of personal responsibility ; they ascribe the wrongs under which they suffer to individual persons, whom they then begin to denounce and hate ; they are blind as to the real causes of their sufferings, they kick against effects and fight after the fashion of Don Quixote against wind-mills and all sorts of imaginary foes. The bloody course revolutions have generally taken can be traced to the blindness of these unconscious anti-revolutionary revolutionists" - August Spies
Posted on: Thu, 06 Jun 2013 04:19:59 +0000
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