our present capitalism is the wage sy

th raw material, to organize production, to pay the employes a fixed wage, and lastly, to pocket the surplus value or profits, under pretext of re

he profits with the workers, or rather to establish a "sliding scale," which would oblige them to raise wages when prices were high; in

Commune, and their deputies and officials who are to have the control of industry. It is they who reserve to themselves the right of employing the surplus of production-in the interests of all. Moreover, Collectivism draws a very subtle but very far-reaching distinction between the work of the labourer and of the man who has learned a craft. Unskilled la

an by making the wage system, in all its forms, an impossibility, and by renderi

it would become impossible in a period of Revolution, when the need of feeding hungry millions would spring up with the first call to arms. A political revolution can be accomplished without shaking the foundations of industry, b

t be accomplished in a few days; nor, on the other hand, will the people submit to be half starved for years in order to oblige the theorists who uphold the

ple will be patient no longer, and if food is

Revolutionists, the Revolution itself will become hateful in the eyes of the masses, they will certainly lend their support to the champions of order-even though they are collectivists. In such a line of conduct, the capitalists will see a means of hereafter crushing the collectivists in their turn. And if "order is establish

uggle fresh upon him, still called "Anarchists." The Dantonists soon followed them; and when the party of Robespierre had guillotined these revolutionaries, they in the

hists; the Fabians will hang the social democrats, and will in their tur

place, the idea of anarchist Communism will have gained ground. It is not an artificial idea. The people themselves have breathed it

he insurgent cities will take possession of the warehouses, the cattle markets,-in fact of all the provision stores and of all the food to be had. The well-intentioned citizens, m

s statistical committees, and what it never did find out during the siege of 1871-the quantity of provisions it contains. In forty-eight hours millions of c

the self-styled "scientific" theorists do not thrust themselves in to darken counsel! Or rather let them expound their muddle-headed theories as much as they like, provided they have no authority, no power! And that admirable spirit of organization inherent in the people, ab

ed their lives buried among the documents, can doubt it. Speak of the organizing genius of the "Great Misunderstood," the people, to those who have seen it in Paris in the days of the bar

ould not matter very much. For the mass of the people it would still be an improvement on their former condition; and, bes

mediate need, will be infinitely preferable to anything invented between