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That law had been abolished at the Revolution for the bourgeoisie's benefit; but now, also for its own purposes, it revived it. Each family must have but one son.
Do they not thereby really deserve the thanks and the affection of the propertied classes, and of the bourgeoisie above all? Whence arises the bourgeoisie's dread of the people in political matters? Look back, in memory, to the months of March, April, and May, 1848. Have you forgotten how things looked here at that time?
Southwood Smith, one of the commissioners, does, that through prolonged childhood on the one hand and premature age on the other, that period of life in which the human being is in full possession of his powers, the period of manhood, is greatly shortened, while the length of life in general is below the average. This, too, on the debit side of the bourgeoisie's reckoning!
This is why the Mensheviks, direct pleaders for the bourgeoisie's right to power, exhausted themselves so rapidly and, by the time of the October Revolution, were almost completely played out. The S. R.'s, too, were losing influence more and more first among the workingmen, then in the army, and finally in the villages.
But let us hear the English bourgeoisie's own words. I should think that when one not only pays the poor-rate, but also contributes largely to the charitable institutions, one had done enough to earn a right to be spared such disagreeable and impertinent molestations.
After the First Congress of Soviets, the Socialist ministers were held accountable to the Central Executive Committee. To meet the bourgeoisie's wishes, the General Executive Committee, after the July days, released the Socialist Ministers from all responsibility to the Soviets, in order, as it were, to create a revolutionary dictatorship.
The leading role in the campaign was played, of course, by the Cadet bourgeoisie, who were prompted by their class instincts to the knowledge that it was not only a question of a drive, but also of all the further developments of the revolution, and primarily of the fate of government control. The bourgeoisie's machinery of "public opinion" revealed itself here in all its power.
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