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belong to a few and not to the whole social 

 body ; it would not be more absurd if the 

 air we breathe were the monopoly of a few 

 proprietors. 



That is indeed the supreme aim of socialism, 

 but we can evidently not attain it by aiming 

 at this or that landlord, this or that capitalist. 

 The method of the individualist struggle is 

 destined to remain sterile, or at least it exacts 

 an immense waste of forces to obtain only 

 partial and provisional results. 



Also, those politicians who carry on their 

 business of daily or anecdotic protest, who 

 only see a struggle of individuals, and whose 

 work is without effect on the public or on 

 assemblies who become accustomed to it, 

 have on me the effect of fantastic hygienists, 

 who would try to render a marsh habitable 

 by killing the mosquitoes one by one with a 

 revolver, instead of adopting the method and 

 aim of rendering healthy the pestilential 

 marsh. 



No personal struggles, no personal violence, 

 but a class struggle. The immense army of 

 workers of all trades and all professions must 

 be made conscious of these fundamental truths. 

 We must show them that their class interests 

 are in opposition to the interests of the class 

 which holds the economic power, and it is by 

 class conscious organisation that they will 

 conquer this economic power by means of 

 other public powers which contemporary 

 civilisation has secured to free peoples. One 

 can, however, foresee that in every country the 

 dominant class before yielding will diminish 



