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alternate with periods of despondency and 

 distrust with which the Buddhist theory of 

 electoral abstention, so convenient for conser- 

 vative parties, corresponds. We never see 

 there that continuity of conscious action, 

 slower and less efficacious in appearance, but 

 really the only kind of action that can bring 

 to pass what appear to us to be the miracles 

 of history. 



So, Marxian socialism has proclaimed 

 henceforth in all countries that the principal 

 means of social transformation must be the 

 conquest of public powers (in local admini- 

 strations as well as in parliaments) as one of 

 the results of the organisation of workmen in 

 a class conscious party. The further the 

 political organisation of the workers progresses 

 in civilised countries, the more through an 

 inevitable evolution shall the socialist organ- 

 isation of society be seen to realise itself 



can be looked at from another point of view, which con- 

 servatives, liberals, and radicals forget too completely. 



The same day as these outrages, two explosions of gas 

 took place, one in the mines of Karwinn (Austria), and 

 the other in the mines of Cardiff (England) ; the first 

 caused the death of 257 miners, the second 210. 



However much the death of an honest man like Carnot 

 may be deplored, it is not comparable with the sum of 

 human suffering, of the misery and evils with which these 

 467 workers' families were afflicted, all equally innocent. 

 And yet class interest even unconsciously filled with 

 regrets, protestations, and demonstrations, the bourgeois 

 newspapers (conservative, progressive, radical) of the 

 whole world and the telegrams, full of dignity, of the 

 King of Italy were mingled with the oratory sent by my 

 friend Cavalotti ; but this same class interest uncon- 

 sciously if you will is most completely forgetful of the 

 martyrs to wock in the mines of Karwinn and Cardiff. 



It will be said, and said truly, that the murder of 

 Carnot was the wilful work of a fanatic, whilst no one 



