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those who, although born on the other shore, 

 have embraced its political programme, which 

 necessarily corresponds with the primordial 

 economic necessity that is to say, the sociali- 

 sation of the land and of the means of pro- 

 duction, with all the innumerable and radical 

 transformations, moral, juridical, and political, 

 which it will necessarily determine in the 

 social world. That is why contemporary 

 political life can only degenerate into the 

 most sterile decadence and into the most 

 sordid corruption when it confines itself to the 

 superficial battles of the individualist parties 

 who only differ in colour and formal etiquette, 

 but whose ideas are often so analogous that 

 we frequently see radicals and progressives 

 less up to date than many conservatives. 



Political life will have no fresh birth except 

 through the development of the socialist 

 party, because when the historical figures of 

 the patriots and the personal reasons for differ- 

 ence between the representatives of the various 

 political shades have disappeared from the 

 political arena, the formation of a single 

 individualist party will become necessary, as 

 I declared at the sitting of the Italian 

 Chamber on the 2oth December, 1893. 



The historic duel will then be fought and 

 the class struggle will then unfold on the 

 political arena all its beneficent influence, not 

 in the paltry sense of pugilism and outrages, 

 malice and personal violence, but in the grand 

 meaning of the social drama. With all my 

 soul I desire that this conflict may be solved 

 for the sake of the progress of civilisation 



