ROCK OF GLASS RULE

Maoriland Worker, Volume 2, Issue 70, 12 July 1912, Page 6

ROCK OF GLASS RULE

The private ownership cf the land and means of production used for exploitation is the rock upon which class rule is built; political government is its indispensable instrument. Thc wage-workers cannot be freed from exploitation without conquering the political power and substituting collective for private ownership of the land and means of production used for exploitation. The basis lor such transformation i* rapidly developing within present capitalist society. The laotory system, with ft s complex machinery and minute division of labor, is rapidly destroying all vestige of individual production in manufacture. Modern production is already vfry largely a collective and social process. The great trust* and monopolies which have sprung up in recent years have organised the work and management of the principal industries on a national scale, mid have fitted iheiii for collective use and operation.

''AVoe unto yen that are rich, for ye have re.-i-ivr-d Miiir consolation!"' — Bible.

For diffeieii'.e ol crvi'il let bij/cts fieht lb.' can't bo wroiie. whose lite is in the ri-ht,