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Rh the interests of the conflicting classes more opposed, and the class-struggle raging with greater vigor today than ever before. And, true to the Marxian conception of capitalism, class-lines will continue to become more distinct and the class struggle correspondingly more intensive, the industrial depressions more frequent and the lot of the worker more unsettled, as the capitalist mode of production reaches ever higher forms in its development. To sum up: today, more lucidly than ever, the economic and philosophical deductions and principles of Marx stand verified and vindicated by the force of past experience and the facts of current events—an intellectual oasis in the desert of vulgar-economy.

And the teachings of the founder, of scientific Socialism have not only been verified by the undeniable facts of economic evolution, but also by a corresponding increasing class-consciousness accompanying this inexorable historic process. When Marx went to eternal rest in 1883, already more than the proverbial baker's dozen had declared their allegiance to Socialism: it was the period when hundreds and thousands followed the standard of working-class emancipation—the dawn of modern capitalism, and the embryonic stage in the development of the modern labor movement. Today millions of disinherited all over the globe gather around the banner dedicated to the proletariat by Marx: a banner truly expressive of the demands of economic and social necessity, and symbolizing the ideals and historic mission of the working-class—the destruction of the political class state and the inauguration of the Industrial Republic.

Upon the death of Marx, Frederick Engels wrote amongst others to Wilhelm Liebknecht: "The greatest mind of the second half of our century has ceased to think." He ends his pathetic letter with the following glowing tribute: "Whatever we are, we are through him; and whatever the movement of today is, it is