By Leon Trotsky
First released in 1926, the place is Britain Going? makes a speciality of the ancient elements and situations that have been to outline Britain’s improvement in the course of social unrest at the moment. The ebook considers the way forward for Britain in an age whilst the operating sessions have been being pushed into war of words with the nation below the impression of the area hindrance of capitalism. Writing over 80 years in the past, Trotsky concentrates at the decline of British imperialism in his research of the Bolshevik Revolution. In a super polemic that exposes the entire treachery of the Labour leaders within the 12 months prior to the final strike, he recollects the progressive traditions of the operating classification and attracts at the historic classes of the English Civil conflict and Chartism. Rejecting the parliamentary street and stripping naked the pretensions of Fabian socialism, the place is Britain going? outlines views of revolution which proceed to preserve their validity.
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The revolutionary Chartist movement led in 1844–47 to the institution of the ten-hour working day, and in 1846 to the repeal of the Corn Laws. The break-up of the revolutionary movement in 1848 on the continent not only involved the decline of the Chartist movement, but also for long held up the democratisation of the British Parliament. The electoral reform of 1868 was preceded by the civil war in the United States. When in 1861 the struggle broke out between North and South in America, the British workers demonstrated their sympathy with the Northern States, while the sympathy of the ruling classes was largely given to the slave-owners.
But we find the explanation of this oddity in objective conditions, in the structure of society and its changes. Thanks to this, we, Marxians, understand the tempo of development of the British Labour Movement and foresee its morrow much better than do the present " theoreticians " of the Labour Party. The call of the ancient philosophy to " know thyself " has not rung in their ears. They consider that they are called by destiny to reconstruct anew the most ancient of social structures, and at the same time they are completely prostrated before any projection of the lines into the realm of actuality.
A new life can be poured into it only if it is approached as a single whole. But that is inconceivable while private ownership in the means of production is retained. The chief end of Socialism is the raising of the economic might of the people. Only on that basis is the construction of a more cultured, more harmonious, more happy human society conceivable. If Mr. Baldwin, with all his sympathies for ancient British industry, is compelled to confess that the new capitalistic forms—trusts and syndicates— represent a step forward, then we consider that a single socialistic combine of industry represents a gigantic step forward by comparison with capitalist trusts.