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surely as harvest follows the planting of the seed. This work of readjustment of the mode of distribution to the new mode of production and ownership, and the full development of all the three processes to the limit of their capacities for the benefit of all members of society, will remain for the fully developed, organized and educated working class. But in the preparatory work of transition, particularly in the ruthless destruction of all the elements of the old social system, our friends the enemy have rendered, and are rendering, signal service. In their mad effort to escape their fate the capitalists are only cheating the gallows by committing suicide.