Ch.05: IV. POSITION OF THE COMMUNISTS IN RELATION TO THE VARIOUS EXISTING OPPOSITION PARTIES

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Section II has made clear the relations of the Communists to the existing
working-class parties, such as the Chartists in England and the Agrarian
Reformers in America.

The Communists fight for the attainment of the immediate aims, for the
enforcement of the momentary interests of the working class; but in the
movement of the present, they also represent and take care of the future of
that movement. In France the Communists ally themselves with the
Social-Democrats, against the conservative and radical bourgeoisie, reserving,
however, the right to take up a critical position in regard to phrases and
illusions traditionally handed down from the great Revolution.

In Switzerland they support the Radicals, without losing sight of the fact that
this party consists of antagonistic elements, partly of Democratic Socialists,
in the French sense, partly of radical bourgeois.

In Poland they support the party that insists on an agrarian revolution as the
prime condition for national emancipation, that party which fomented the
insurrection of Cracow in 1846.

In Germany they fight with the bourgeoisie whenever it acts in a revolutionary
way, against the absolute monarchy, the feudal squirearchy, and the petty
bourgeoisie.

But they never cease, for a single instant, to instil into the working class
the clearest possible recognition of the hostile antagonism between bourgeoisie
and proletariat, in order that the German workers may straightaway use, as so
many weapons against the bourgeoisie, the social and political conditions that
the bourgeoisie must necessarily introduce along with its supremacy, and in
order that, after the fall of the reactionary classes in Germany, the fight
against the bourgeoisie itself may immediately begin.

The Communists turn their attention chiefly to Germany, because that country is
on the eve of a bourgeois revolution that is bound to be carried out under more
advanced conditions of European civilisation, and with a much more developed
proletariat, than that of England was in the seventeenth, and of France in the
eighteenth century, and because the bourgeois revolution in Germany will be but
the prelude to an immediately following proletarian revolution.

In short, the Communists everywhere support every revolutionary movement
against the existing social and political order of things.

In all these movements they bring to the front, as the leading question in
each, the property question, no matter what its degree of development at the
time.

Finally, they labour everywhere for the union and agreement of the democratic
parties of all countries.

The Communists disdain to conceal their views and aims. They openly declare
that their ends can be attained only by the forcible overthrow of all existing
social conditions. Let the ruling classes tremble at a Communistic revolution.
The proletarians have nothing to lose but their chains. They have a world to
win.

WORKING MEN OF ALL COUNTRIES, UNITE!

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