"We are Socialists! That means we are enemies to private property,
which separates people, arms them against one another, and brings
forth an irreconcilable hostility of interests; brings forth lies
that endeavor to cover up, or to justify, this conflict of interests,
and corrupt all with falsehood, hypocrisy and malice. We maintain
that a society that regards man only as a tool for its enrichment
is anti-human; it is hostile to us; we cannot be reconciled to its
morality; its double-faced and lying cynicism. Its cruel relation to
individuals is repugnant to us. We want to fight, and will fight,
every form of the physical and moral enslavement of man by such a
society; we will fight every measure calculated to disintegrate
society for the gratification of the interests of gain. We are
workers--men by whose labor everything is created, from gigantic
machines to childish toys. We are people devoid of the right to
fight for our human dignity. Everyone strives to utilize us, and
may utilize us, as tools for the attainment of his ends. Now we
want to have as much freedom as will give us the possibility in
time to come to conquer all the power. Our slogan is simple:
'All the power for the people; all the means of production for the
people; work obligatory on all.
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