******************* Marx and Engels:
Thus, in 1847, socialism was a middle-class movement, communism a working-class movement. Socialism was, on the Continent at least, “respectable”; communism was the very opposite. And as our notion, from the very beginning, was that “the emancipation of the workers must be the act of the working class itself,...” http://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1848/communist-manifesto/preface.htm
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Individual workers acting consciously as a class for themselves are taking responsibilty for the socialist revolution. Until then, they're only some pawns in some ruling class (or potential rulers') game.
Mike B)
An injury to one is an injury to all http://www.iww.org/
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