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Contemporary system.
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| β) |
Socialist aims and the class struggle.
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| γ) |
Struggle against the autocracy.
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[BOX:]
Divide α-γ into three talks
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Plan for first talk
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on the Social-Democratic programme
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α {{
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1. |
The struggle of the workers against their masters to improve their
condition is world-wide. Strikes—socialism. What does this mean?
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| 2. |
Contemporary society is arranged as follows: it is divided into working
people and exploiters. Two classes. Property-owners and proletarians. Who
maintains whom?
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Workers’ plight: low wages. Malnutrition. Unemployment. Female
labour. Child labour.
“Degeneration of the nation.” Prostitution. Social and political
oppression.
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In large-scale production, workers unite to fight against their
masters. Under capitalism, the whole
of society is more tightly knit, making possible a transition to socialist
production. Example of the masters being quite useless in big
factories and estates.
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Socialist revolution=land and factories handed over to the
workers. Socialist production, short
working hours, etc.
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Demands on modern society to facilitate the workers’ struggle and
safeguard them against degeneration:
labour reforms, 8-hour working day, weekly payment of wages, living
quarters, medical aid, schools, etc.
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Political demands. What is an autocracy? Struggle for political freedom.
(Constitution—republic, freedom of speech, assembly, etc., etc.)
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Revolutionary parties and their role in the working-class struggle.
Narodnaya Volya and
S o c i a l- D e m o c r a c y.
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