more difficult. Their dissatisfaction with the results of the war will continually increase and because they constitute the permanent army,—the small peasantry has many unpleasant surprises for the bourgeoisie.
The economic restoration of Europe made so much of by her ministers, is a lie. Europe is being ruined and the whole world along with her.
There is no salvation in the capitalist system. The policy of Imperialism does not lead to the aboition of destitution, but to its intensification owing to the plundering of reserves.
Raw material and fuel are International questions. They can be solved only on the basis of systematic, socialized production.
The state debts must necessarily be annulled. Labor and its products must be freed from the inordinate tribute to the world plutocracy. This plutocracy must be overthrown. All state barriers which tend to subdivide the entire system of production, must be removed. The Supreme Economic Council of the Imperialists of the Entente must be replaced by the Supreme Economic Council of the world proletariat, to effect a centralized exploitation of all the economic resources of mankind.
It is essential to destroy Imperialism in order to give mankind an opportunity to live.
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