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 JAURÈS

IN THE DEBATE ON SOCIALISM WITH CLEMENCEAU

(1906)

other day M. Millerand, when he brought to this tribunal certain projects regarding compulsory arbitration and the collective contract, said that it was necessary, so far as possible, to put an end to these strikes, which are, he added, an economic civil war. The economic civil war manifests itself by strikes on the surface of society; but it is not only in strikes that it exists. It is at the very bottom of society; it is at the very bottom of a system of property which gives power to some and inflicts servitude on others.