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A revolutionary Socialist journal. Dedicated to the idea thatthe emancipation of the working class must be the class-consciouswork of that class. The WEEKLY PEOPLE teachesthat a political victory of the working class is “moonshine”unless the might of the workers in the shape of a revolutionaryindustrial union is behind that victory. It teaches furtherthat the organization of the working class can not be accomplishedby dragging the revolutionary movement into the ratholesof anarchists and “pure and simple” physical forcistsgenerally. The WEEKLY PEOPLE ruthlessly exposes thescheming “pure and simple” politician as well as the “pureand simple” physical forcist. In doing this it at the sametime imparts sound information regarding Marxian or scientificSocialism. It is a journal which, read a few times, becomesindispensable.
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PREFACE.
During the period in history that the present generationis going through the struggle for supremacy betweenCapital and Labor is occupying a more and more prominentposition at the front of the stage. Here in Americathe material conditions necessary for the triumph of Laborin this struggle,—for the realization of Socialism—are byfar more ripe than in any other country.
The old system of wealth production in small shops,with crude tools, by the application of the labor of one,two or a handful of workers, is practically extinct.Through the use of up-to-date improved machinery,through co-operation of thousands and sometimes tens ofthousands of workers employed by one concern, and theconsequent subdivision and specialization of labor enhancingits productivity; through capitalist concentrationand amalgamation of individual concerns into corporationsand trusts, eliminating waste of labor incidental tocompetition and anarchy in production, through all thatthe productivity of labor became plentiful to the point ofbeing marvelous. After centuries of struggle society atlast has within its grasp the means of assured, carefreeexistence and untrammeled progress.
With regard to the power of the political State and thepolitical rights of the people the historical development ofthe civilized nations was along the lines of concentration2of political powers in the hands of an oligarchy,