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《共产党宣言》英文版师生共读活动第五期

2022.06.14

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The Communists are further reproached with desiring to abolish countries and nationality.


The working men have no country. We cannot take from them what they have not got. Since the proletariat must first of all acquire political supremacy, must rise to be the leading class of the nation, must constitute itself the nation, it is, so far, itself national, though not in the bourgeois sense of the word.


National differences and antagonisms between peoples are daily more and more vanishing, owing to the development of the bourgeoisie, to freedom of commerce, to the world-market, to uniformity in the mode of production and in the conditions of life corresponding thereto.


The supremacy of the proletariat will cause them to vanish still faster. United action, of the leading civilised countries at least, is one of the first conditions for the emancipation of the proletariat.


In proportion as the exploitation of one individual by another is put an end to, the exploitation of one nation by another will also be put an end to. In proportion as the antagonism between classes within the nation vanishes, the hostility of one nation to another will come to an end.


The charges against Communism made from a religious, a philosophical, and, generally, from an ideological standpoint, are not deserving of serious examination.


Does it require deep intuition to comprehend that man's ideas, views and conceptions, in one word, man's consciousness, changes with every change in the conditions of his material existence, in his social relations and in his social life?


What else does the history of ideas prove, than that intellectual production changes its character in proportion as material production is changed? The ruling ideas of each age have ever been the ideas of its ruling class.


When people speak of ideas that revolutionise society, they do but express the fact, that within the old society, the elements of a new one have been created, and that the dissolution of the old ideas keeps even pace with the dissolution of the old conditions of existence.

他们想也没有想到,问题正在于使妇女不再处于单纯生产工具的地位。

工人没有祖国。决不能剥夺他们所没有的东西。因为无产阶级首先必须取得政治统治,上升为民族的阶级,把自身组织成为民族,所以它本身还是民族的,虽然完全不是资产阶级所理解的那种意思。
  随着资产阶级的发展,随着贸易自由的实现和世界市场的建立,随着工业生产以及与之相适应的生活条件的趋于一致,各国人民之间的民族分隔和对立日益消失。
  无产阶级的统治将使它们更快地消失。联合的行动,至少是各文明国家的联合的行动,是无产阶级获得解放的首要条件之一。
  人对人的剥削一消灭,民族对民族的剥削就会随之消灭。
  民族内部的阶级对立一消失,民族之间的敌对关系就会随之消失。
  从宗教的、哲学的和一切意识形态的观点对共产主义提出的种种责难,都不值得详细讨论了。
  人们的观念、观点和概念,一句话,人们的意识,随着人们的生活条件、人们的社会关系、人们的社会存在的改变而改变,这难道需要经过深思才能了解吗?
  思想的历史除了证明精神生产随着物质生产的改造而改造,还证明了什么呢?任何一个时代的统治思想始终都不过是统治阶级的思想。
  当人们谈到使整个社会革命化的思想时,他们只是表明了一个事实:在旧社会内部已经形成了新社会的因素,旧思想的瓦解是同旧生活条件的瓦解步调一致的。


点击播放顾皓玥朗读片段

When the ancient world was in its last throes, the ancient religions were overcome by Christianity. When Christian ideas succumbed in the 18th century to rationalist ideas, feudal society fought its death battle with the then revolutionary bourgeoisie. The ideas of religious liberty and freedom of conscience merely gave expression to the sway of free competition within the domain of knowledge.


Undoubtedly, it will be said, religious, moral, philosophical and juridical ideas have been modified in the course of historical development. But religion, morality philosophy, political science, and law, constantly survived this change.


There are, besides, eternal truths, such as Freedom, Justice, etc. that are common to all states of society. But Communism abolishes eternal truths, it abolishes all religion, and all morality, instead of constituting them on a new basis; it therefore acts in contradiction to all past historical experience.


What does this accusation reduce itself to? The history of all past society has consisted in the development of class antagonisms, antagonisms that assumed different forms at different epochs.


But whatever form they may have taken, one fact is common to all past ages, viz., the exploitation of one part of society by the other. No wonder, then, that the social consciousness of past ages, despite all the multiplicity and variety it displays, moves within certain common forms, or general ideas, which cannot completely vanish except with the total disappearance of class antagonisms.


The Communist revolution is the most radical rupture with traditional property relations; no wonder that its development involves the most radical rupture with traditional ideas.


But let us have done with the bourgeois objections to Communism.


We have seen above, that the first step in the revolution by the working class, is to raise the proletariat to the position of ruling as to win the battle of democracy.


The proletariat will use its political supremacy to wrest, by degrees, all capital from the bourgeoisie, to centralise all instruments of production in the hands of the State, i.e., of the proletariat organised as the ruling class; and to increase the total of productive forces as rapidly as possible.


Of course, in the beginning, this cannot be effected except by means of despotic inroads on the rights of property, and on the conditions of bourgeois production; by means of measures, therefore, which appear economically insufficient and untenable, but which, in the course of the movement, outstrip themselves, necessitate further inroads upon the old social order, and are unavoidable as a means of entirely revolutionising the mode of production.

当古代世界走向灭亡的时候,古代的各种宗教就被基督教战胜了。当基督教思想在18世纪被启蒙思想击败的时候,封建社会正在同当时革命的资产阶级进行殊死的斗争。信仰自由和宗教自由的思想,不过表明竞争在信仰领域里占统治地位罢了。
   “但是”,有人会说,“宗教的、道德的、哲学的、政治的、法的观念等等在历史发展的进程中固然是不断改变的,而宗教、道德、哲学、政治和法在这种变化中却始终保存着。
   此外,还存在着一切社会状态所共有的永恒真理,如自由、正义等等。但是共产主义要废除永恒真理,它要废除宗教、道德,而不是加以革新,所以共产主义是同至今的全部历史发展相矛盾的。”
   这种责难归结为什么呢?至今的一切社会的历史都是在阶级对立中运动的,而这种对立在不同的时代具有不同的形式。
   但是,不管阶级对立具有什么样的形式,社会上一部分人对另一部分人的剥削却是过去各个世纪所共有的事实。因此,毫不奇怪,各个世纪的社会意识,尽管形形色色、千差万别,总是在某些共同的形式中运动的,这些形式,这些意识形式,只有当阶级对立完全消失的时候才会完全消失。
  共产主义革命就是同传统的所有制关系实行最彻底的决裂;毫不奇怪,它在自己的发展进程中要同传统的观念实行最彻底的决裂。
  不过,我们还是把资产阶级对共产主义的种种责难撇开吧。
  前面我们已经看到,工人革命的第一步就是使无产阶级上升为统治阶级,争得民主。
  无产阶级将利用自己的政治统治,一步一步地夺取资产阶级的全部资本,把一切生产工具集中在国家即组织成为统治阶级的无产阶级手里,并且尽可能快地增加生产力的总量。
  要做到这一点,当然首先必须对所有权和资产阶级生产关系实行强制性的干涉,也就是采取这样一些措施,这些措施在经济上似乎是不够充分的和没有力量的,但是在运动进程中它们会越出本身,而且作为变革全部生产方式的手段是必不可少的。

点击播放成长导师靳镇通朗读片段

These measures will of course be different in different countries.


Nevertheless in the most advanced countries, the following will be pretty generally applicable.


1. Abolition of property in land and application of all rents of land to public purposes.


2. A heavy progressive or graduated income tax.


3. Abolition of all right of inheritance.


4. Confiscation of the property of all emigrants and rebels.


5. Centralisation of credit in the hands of the State, by means of a national bank with State capital and an exclusive monopoly.


6. Centralisation of the means of communication and transport in the hands of the State.


7. Extension of factories and instruments of production owned by the State; the bringing into cultivation of waste-lands, and the improvement of the soil generally in accordance with a common plan.


8. Equal liability of all to labour. Establishment of industrial armies, especially for agriculture.


9. Combination of agriculture with manufacturing industries; gradual abolition of the distinction between town and country, by a more equable distribution of the population over the country.


10. Free education for all children in public schools.

Abolition of children's factory labour in its present form.

Combination of education with industrial production, &c., &c.


When, in the course of development, class distinctions have disappeared, and all production has been concentrated in the hands of a vast association of the whole nation, the public power will lose its political character. Political power, properly so called, is merely the organised power of one class for oppressing another. If the proletariat during its contest with the bourgeoisie is compelled, by the force of circumstances, to organise itself as a class, if, by means of a revolution, it makes itself the ruling class, and, as such, sweeps away by force the old conditions of production, then it will, along with these conditions, have swept away the conditions for the existence of class antagonisms and of classes generally, and will thereby have abolished its own supremacy as a class.


In place of the old bourgeois society, with its classes and class antagonisms, we shall have an association, in which the free development of each is the condition for the free development of all.

这些措施在不同的国家里当然会是不同的。
    但是,最先进的国家几乎都可以采取下面的措施:
    1、剥夺地产,把地租用于国家支出。
     2、征收高额累进税。
     3、废除继承权。
     4、没收一切流亡分子和叛乱分子的财产。
     5、通过拥有国家资本和独享垄断权的国家银行,把信贷集中在国家手里。
     6、把全部运输业集中在国家的手里。
     7、按照总的计划增加国家工厂和生产工具,开垦荒地和改良土壤。
     8、实行普遍劳动义务制,成立产业军,特别是在农业方面。
     9、把农业和工业结合起来,促使城乡对立逐步消灭。
     10、对所有儿童实行公共的和免费的教育。取消现在这种形式的儿童的工厂劳动。把教育同物质生产结合起来,等等。
   当阶级差别在发展进程中已经消失而全部生产集中在联合起来的个人的手里的时候,公共权力就失去政治性质。原来意义上的政治权力,是一个阶级用以压迫另一个阶级的有组织的暴力。如果说无产阶级在反对资产阶级的斗争中一定要联合为阶级,如果说它通过革命使自己成为统治阶级,并以统治阶级的资格用暴力消灭旧的生产关系,那么它在消灭这种生产关系的同时,也就消灭了阶级对立的存在条件,消灭阶级本身的存在条件,从而消灭了它自己这个阶级的统治。
   代替那存在着阶级和阶级对立的资产阶级旧社会的,将是这样一个联合体,在那里,每个人的自由发展是一切人的自由发展的条件。

点击播放薛玲玲朗读片段

III. SOCIALIST AND COMMUNIST LITERATURE

1. REACTIONARY SOCIALISM


A. Feudal Socialism

Owing to their historical position, it became the vocation of the aristocracies of France and England to write pamphlets against modern bourgeois society. In the French revolution of July 1830, and in the English reform agitation, these aristocracies again succumbed to the hateful upstart. Thenceforth, a serious political contest was altogether out of the question. A literary battle alone remained possible. But even in the domain of literature the old cries of the restoration period had become impossible.


In order to arouse sympathy, the aristocracy were obliged to lose sight, apparently, of their own interests, and to formulate their indictment against the bourgeoisie in the interest of the exploited working class alone. Thus the aristocracy took their revenge by singing lampoons on their new master, and whispering in his ears sinister prophecies of coming catastrophe.


In this way arose Feudal Socialism: half lamentation, half lampoon; half echo of the past, half menace of the future; at times, by its bitter, witty and incisive criticism, striking the bourgeoisie to the very heart's core; but always ludicrous in its effect, through total incapacity to comprehend the march of modern history.


The aristocracy, in order to rally the people to them, waved the proletarian alms-bag in front for a banner. But the people, so often as it joined them, saw on their hindquarters the old feudal coats of arms, and deserted with loud and irreverent laughter.


One section of the French Legitimists and Young England exhibited this spectacle.


In pointing out that their mode of exploitation was different to that of the bourgeoisie, the feudalists forget that they exploited under circumstances and conditions that were quite different, and that are now antiquated. In showing that, under their rule, the modern proletariat never existed, they forget that the modern bourgeoisie is the necessary offspring of their own form of society.


For the rest, so little do they conceal the reactionary character of their criticism that their chief accusation against the bourgeoisie amounts to this, that under the bourgeois regime a class is being developed, which is destined to cut up root and branch the old order of society.


What they upbraid the bourgeoisie with is not so much that it creates a proletariat, as that it creates a revolutionary proletariat.


In political practice, therefore, they join in all coercive measures against the working class; and in ordinary life, despite their high falutin phrases, they stoop to pick up the golden apples dropped from the tree of industry, and to barter truth, love, and honour for traffic in wool, beetroot-sugar, and potato spirits.


As the parson has ever gone hand in hand with the landlord, so has Clerical Socialism with Feudal Socialism.


Nothing is easier than to give Christian asceticism a Socialist tinge. Has not Christianity declaimed against private property, against marriage, against the State? Has it not preached in the place of these, charity and poverty, celibacy and mortification of the flesh, monastic life and Mother Church? Christian Socialism is but the holy water with which the priest consecrates the heart-burnings of the aristocrat.

三、社会主义的和共产主义的文献

1、反动的社会主义
(甲)封建的社会主义

法国和英国的贵族,按照他们的历史地位所负的使命,就是写一些抨击现代资产阶级社会的作品。在法国的1830年七月革命和英国的改革运动 中,他们再一次被可恨的暴发户打败了。从此就再谈不上严重的政治斗争了。他们还能进行的只是文字斗争。但是,即使在文字方面也不可能重弹复辟时期的老调了。为了激起同情,贵族们不得不装模作样,似乎他们已经不关心自身的利益,只是为了被剥削的工人阶级的利益才去写对资产阶级的控诉书。他们用来泄愤的手段是:唱唱诅咒他们的新统治者的歌,并向他叽叽咕咕地说一些或多或少凶险的预言。
   这样就产生了封建的社会主义,半是挽歌,半是谤文,半是过去的回音,半是未来的恫吓;它有时也能用辛辣、俏皮而尖刻的评论剌中资产阶级的心,但是它由于完全不能理解现代历史的进程而总是令人感到可笑。
   为了拉拢人民,贵族们把无产阶级的乞食袋当作旗帜来挥舞。但是,每当人民跟着他们走的时候,都发现他们的臀部带有旧的封建纹章,于是就哈哈大笑,一哄而散。
   一部分法国正统派和“青年英国”,都演过这出戏。
   封建主说,他们的剥削方式和资产阶级的剥削不同,那他们只是忘记了,他们是在完全不同的、目前已经过时的情况和条件下进行剥削的。他们说,在他们的统治下并没有出现过现代的无产阶级,那他们只是忘记了,现代的资产阶级正是他们的社会制度的必然产物。
   不过,他们毫不掩饰自己的批评的反动性质,他们控告资产阶级的主要罪状正是在于:在资产阶级的统治下有一个将把整个旧社会制度炸毁的阶级发展起来。
   他们责备资产阶级,与其说是因为它产生了无产阶级,不如说是因为它产生了革命的无产阶级。
   因此,在政治实践中,他们参与对工人阶级采取的一切暴力措施,在日常生活中,他们违背自己的那一套冠冕堂皇的言词,屈尊拾取金苹果,不顾信义、仁爱和名誉去做羊毛、甜菜和烧酒的买卖。
   正如僧侣总是同封建主携手同行一样,僧侣的社会主义也总是同封建的社会主义携手同行的。
   要给基督教禁欲主义涂上一层社会主义的色彩,是再容易不过了。基督教不是也激烈反对私有财产,反对婚姻,反对国家吗?它不是提倡用行善和求乞、独身和禁欲、修道和礼拜来代替这一切吗?基督教的社会主义,只不过是僧侣用来使贵族的怨愤神圣的圣水罢了。