Contents -BIBLIOGRAPHIC RECORD

Upton Sinclair, ed. (1878–1968). rn The Cry for Justice: An Anthology of the Literature of Social Protest. 1915.

The Social Revolution and After

Kautsky, Karl Johann

Karl Kautsky

(German Socialist editor, generally recognized as the intellectual leader of the modern Social-democratic movement in his country)

FREEDOM of education and of scientific investigation from the fetters of capitalist dominion; freedom of the individual from the oppression of exclusive, exhaustive physical labor; displacement of capitalist industry in the intellectual production of society by the free unions—along this road proceeds the tendency of the proletarian régime.…

Regulation of social chaos and liberation of the individual—these are the two historical tasks that capitalism has placed before society. They appear to be contradictory, but they are simultaneously soluble because each of them belongs to a different sphere of social life. Undoubtedly whoever should seek to rule both spheres in the same manner would find himself involved in insoluble contradictions.…

Communism in material production, anarchism in intellectual. This is the type of the Socialist productive system which will arise from the dominion of the proletariat.