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 there is a struggle for the cause of labor and the oppressed people there our cause is at stake.

We seek justice and fight injustice.

We seek free labor and attack wage-slavery.

We seek the prosperity of all and struggle against misery.

We seek the education of all and fight ignorance and barbarism.

We seek peace and order and combat the murder of people, the class war and the social anarchy.

We seek the socialist people's state and attack the despotic class state.

Whoever desires these things, and struggle for them, let him unite with us and work with all his strength for our cause—for the cause of socialism—for the cause of humanity, whose victory will soon be gained.

The Erfurter convention of Oct. 20, 1891, formulated the principles of our party into the following strong scientific form:

The economic development of industrial society tends inevitably to the ruin of small industries which are based upon the workman's private ownership of the means of production. It separates him from this means of production and converts him into a destitute member of the proletariat, whilst a comparatively small number of capitalists and great land-owners obtain a monopoly of the means of production.

Hand in hand with this growing monopoly goes the crushing out of existence of these shattered small industries by industries of colossal growth, the development of the tool into the machine, and a gigantic increase in the productiveness of human labor. But all the advantages of this revolution are monopolized by the