Marxism Unmasked from Delusion to Destruction.pdf 7471KB

He believed then that sociaUsm was to be brou^t about by a series of
interventionist measures. He hsted ten intervrntionist measures—amoi^
them the progressive income tax, the aboUtion of the rights of inheritance,
agricultural reform, and so on. These measures were untenable, he said, but
necessary for socialism to come.
Thus, Karl Marx and Engeb bebe\Td in 1948, that socialism could be
attained by interventionism. By 1839. eleven yrars after the Owtmamisf
Manifesto, Marx and Engels had abandoned the advocacy o( mtervmoons;
. they no longer expected socialism to come ftom legislative changes. They
wanted to brmg about socialism b\' a radical change oxmught. From this
point of view, followers of Marx and Engeb considerrd bter measum
the New Deal, the Fair Deal, and so forth—to be ** petty bour]gtots** poli>
cies. In the 184IK Engels had said Brmsh labor laws wrrr a sign of progrra
and a sign of the breakdown of capitalism. Later they called such mterven-
tionist measures or intervrnnonist policy (S^zuilpcklA) very
In IKKK—M) Ntrars after the publication of the Cpotmhm
a translation \^-as made b\- an English writer Engels added tome comments
to this translation Krferring to the ten intersmtionta measum adw^ated
in the Mamtcsto. he vaid thevr measurrt ^^Tve not onh- untenable, as
the Manifesto claimed, but prrci*clv because the> xkrtr untenable.
the\' would necessarily push hinher and lurther toward still mote
measures of this kind, until esmtualK* theu morr advanced measuivs would
lead to \