Transcribing the Past

  Note translated by Reddit user neopoznanoye_telo Text reads  [Banner]  "In the struggle you will gain your right!"   Long live the revolutionary people! What will we produce during the constituent assembly?     A speedy and lasting peace.     All power to the people.     All land without redemption - to the working people - Land only to those who work on it. No purchase or sale of land.     Shifting taxes from the poor to the rich.     The destruction of the standing army and its replacement by the people's militia.     The struggle for socialism, i.e., the transfer of factories into the hands of the working people    Peasants and workers - who were nothing - will become everything! Comments;  I'm assuming this was produced in 1917 between the February and October revolutions since it opposes the ongoing participation in the First World War and calls for extending the socialist policies dema...

An article by Robert Owen, published in 1856 in his Millennial Gazette  SLAVERY is a grave offence against the slave, his owner, society, and the pure and undefiled religion of love and charity, taught by Christ, but not yet in practice by his professed disciples. The infant slave at birth possesses all the divine qualities of humanity fresh from his Creator, and of every shade of colour, is capable of being made a good and valuable citizen of the world. These infants are capable of being so placed, trained, educated, and employed, by a new combination of rational surroundings, that they may be made to become at maturity far more valuable and much better members of society than any citizen now living in any country. Better and of more value, because all of every country have been to this day mis-placed, mis-trained, mis-educated, mis-employed, and mis-governed, and in consequence have been forced to become far more inferior, and of much less value to society, than all of humankin...

    Expropriation An Essay by Kropotkin  Published in La Revolte in 1886  Translated by Henry Glasse  No Social problem is more important for Revolutionists than that which deals with the expropriation of the rich in favour of the people, and the appropriation of all wealth by the latter. We invite all our comrades to study this problem under all its aspects, and to disenss it unceasingly, in view of its realization, which must sooner or later force itself upon us, as the definite success or temporary failure of the Revolution depends upon the manner in which this expropriation is applied. As a matter of fact, no Socialist can doubt that any revolutionary effort is condemned in advance if, it does not correspond with the interests of the great majority, and find means for satisfying its requirements. It is not enough to have a noble id al: man cannot live on great thoughts and lofty discourses alone; he requires bread; the stomach has more rights than even the b...

    M. Ĵ. Perlow : Usona Socialista Movado de M. Ĵ. Perlow (Daŭrigo) Workers Party of America  ( Laborista Partio de Ameriko ). - En Septembro 1919, organiziĝis du Komunistaj Partioj. Dum malpli ol kvar monatoj, ili libere propagandis por Komunismo. La unuan de Januaro 1920, la registaro per invado detruis la Komunistajn Partiojn, kaj oni deklaris la Komunismon kontraŭleĝa. Ĉar laŭleĝan komunistan laboron oni ne povis fari, tial organiziĝis la kaŝitaj Komunistaj Partioj. Ĉi-lastaj estis ĝenataj en sia propagando, ĉar ili ne povis tuŝi multe da laboristoj. Por sukcese propagandi la Komunismon, unu el la kaŝitaj Komunistaj Partioj starigis laŭleĝe organizaĵon sub la nomo "Amerika Laborista Asocio", kiu staris sub la kontrolo de l’kaŝita K.P. kaj propagandis la Komunismon sub la nomo : "revolucia Socialismo". Samtempe la maldekstraj anoj de Socialist-Partio starigis novan organizaĵon sub la nomo : "Workers Council" (Laborist-Konsilantaro), kaj oni ko...

    I came across this short article by Eugene V. Debs. It was written in 1915 but much of it, including the peace in the USA and war in Europe, is still very timely. I sometimes feel tired of saying that when going through historical records, especially since it only seems to apply to bad things, disease, poverty, war, corruption, bigotry etc.  Debs was at the time the leader of the Socialist Party and was its pick for Presidential candidate, his opposition to American entry in the First World War and refusal to buckle to pressure led to his arrest, and he ran his last Presidential campaign from behind bars.     Published in St. Louis Labor, whole no. 578 (Aug. 14, 1915),    Because the workers have everything to lose, including their lives, and absolutely nothing to gain in war, it does not follow under the benevolent rule of capitalism that they have everything to gain and nothing to lose in peace. In Europe just now the workers have war and hell wh...

       A translation of a speech by Wilhelm Liebknecht a prominent Socialist leader in 19th century Germany. The contents of the speech are an attack on nationalism, militarism and capitalist morality and an appeal for international brotherhood and social revolution. It covers and criticizes early industrial capitalism and Bourgeois society for its failures to solve social issues and argues coherently that on the contrary they are often the root causes of these problems, from poverty to political violence.   Available for tablets at the Kindle Store.   Support via ko-fi   On Offence and Defence A Speech by Wilhelm Liebknecht (1871) Introduction Wilhelm Liebknecht was an important figure in the history of German socialism, he was amongst the first generation of socialist politicians who founded the Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD). And it was partially thanks to his activity that the SPD grew from a small sect into ...