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nique develops with gigantic strides to ever greater 

 productivity. This is the real application of Darwin- 

 ism to human society. The particular thing about it is 

 that under capitalism there is private property, and 

 behind every machine there is a man. Behind the 

 gigantic machine there is a big capitalist and behind 

 the small machine there is a small capitalist. With 

 the defeat of the small machine, the small capitalist, 

 as capitalist, perishes with all his hopes and happiness. 

 At the same time the struggle is a race of capital. 

 Large capital is better equipped; large capital is get- 

 ting ever larger. This concentration of capital under- 

 mines capital itself, for it diminishes the bourgeoisie 

 whose interest it is to maintain capitalism, and it in- 

 creases that mass which seeks to abolish it. In this 

 development, one of the characteristics of capitalism is 

 gradually abolished. In the world where each strug- 

 gles against all and all against each, a new association 

 develops among the working class, the class organiza- 

 tion. The working class organizations start with end- 

 ing the competition existing between workers and 

 combine their separate powers into one great power in 

 their struggle with the outside world. Everything that 

 applies to social groups also applies to this class or- 

 ganization, brought about by natural conditions. In 

 the ranks of this class organization, social motives, 

 moral feelings, self-sacrifice and devotion for the en- 

 tire body develop in a most splendid way. This solid 

 organization gives to the working class that great 

 strength which it needs in order to conquer the capi- 

 talist class. The class struggle which is not a struggle 

 with tools but for the possession of tools, a struggle 

 for the right to direct industry, will be determined by 

 ^he strength of the class organization. 





