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Socialism Reaffirmed
Brinton, Maurice
http://www.connexions.org/CxArchive/MIA/brinton/1960/10/socialism-reaffirmed.htmhttp://www.marxists.org/archive/brinton/1960/10/socialism-reaffirmed.htm Year Published: 1960 Resource Type: Article Cx Number: CX10572 "The emancipation of the working class is the task of the workers themselves". The working class cannot entrust its historical task to anyone else. No "saviours from on high" will free it. The class will never achieve power, its power, if it entrusts the revolutionary struggle to others. Mass socialist consciousness and mass participation are essential. The revolutionary organization must assist in their development and must ruthlessly expose all illusions that the problem can be solved in any other way. Moreover the working class will never hold power unless it is prepared consciously and permanently to mobilize itself to this end. Subject Headings |