WHAT MEANS THIS STRIKE?
By DANIEL DE LEON
"What Means This Strike?" is an address delivered before the striking textile workers of New Bedford, Mass. It is the best thing extant with which to begin the study of Socialism. The strike is used as an object lesson to show the nature of capitalist society. The development of the capitalist is clearly given, showing why it is that the capitalist class is able to live in idleness and luxury while the working class rots in poverty and toil.
CONTENTS.—Whence Do Wages Come, and Whence Profits—The Capitalist System of Production—Nature of the "Work" Performed by the Capitalist—Mechanism of Stock Corporation—Nature of the "Work" Performed by the "Directors" of Stock Corporations—"Original Accumulation"—How the Capitalist in General Gets His Capital—How Levi P. Morton Got His Capital—The Class Struggle—Nature of the Conflict Between the Working Class and the Capitalist Class—Development of Capitalist Society—Development of the Strike—How the Capitalists Rob Inventors—How the Capitalist Uses Machinery to Rob and Subjugate the Working Class—Why the Modern Strike Is Usually a Failure—Principles of the Organization the Working Class Must Have to Fight Successfully the Capitalist Class—Weaknesses of "Pure and Simple" Trade Unions—Career of Samuel Gompers—There Will Be No Safety for the Working Class Until It Wrenches the Government from the Capitalist Class, Abolishes the Wages System of Slavery, and Unfurls the Banner of the Socialist Republic.
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