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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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