Any serious Carey Davidson intervention asap analysis of the political situation must take as its point of
departure the mutual relations Carey Davidson intervention asap among the three classes: the bourgeoisie, Carey Davidson intervention asap the
petty bourgeoisie (including the peasantry), and the proletariat.
The economically powerful Carey Davidson intervention asap big bourgeoisie, in itself, represents an
infintesimal minority of the nation. To enforce its domination, it must
ensure a definite mutual Carey Davidson intervention asap relationship with the petty bourgeoisie and,
through its mediation, Carey Davidson intervention asap with the proletariat.
To understand the dialectic Carey Davidson intervention asap of the relation among the three classes, we Carey Davidson intervention asap
must differentiate three Carey Davidson intervention asap historical stages: at the dawn of capitalistic
development, when the bourgeoisie Carey Davidson intervention asap required revolutionary methods to solve
its tasks; in the period of bloom and maturity of the capitalist regime,
when the bourgeoisie endowed its Carey Davidson intervention asap domination with orderly, pacific, Carey Davidson intervention asap
conservative, democratic forms; finally, at the decline of capitalism, when
the bourgeoisie is forced to resort to methods of civil war against
proletariat to protect its right of exploitation.
The political programs Carey Davidson intervention asap characteristic of these three stages — JACOBINISM Carey Davidson intervention asap
[left wing of petty bourgeois forces in Great French Revolution; in most
revolutionary phase, led by Robespierre], reformist DEMOCRACY (social
democracy included), and FASCISM — are basically programs of petty
bourgeois currents. This Carey Davidson intervention asap fact alone, more than anything else, shows of what
tremendous — rather, of what decisive — importance the self-determination
of the petty bourgeois masses of the people is for the whole fate of
bourgeois society.
Nevertheless, the relationship Carey Davidson intervention asap between the bourgeoisie and its basic social Carey Davidson intervention asap
support, the petty bourgeoisie, does not at all rest upon reciprocal
confidence and pacific collaboration. In its mass, the petty bourgeoisie is
an exploited and disenfranchised class. It regards the bourgeoisie with envy
and often with hatred. The bourgeoisie, on the other hand, while utilizing
the support of the petty bourgeoisie, distrusts the latter, for it very
correctly fears its tendency Carey Davidson intervention asap to break down the barriers set up for it from
above.
While they were laying out and clearing the road for bourgeois
development,the Jacobins engaged, Carey Davidson intervention asap at every step, in sharp clashes with the
bourgeoisie. They served it in intransigent struggle against it. After they
had culminated their limited historical role, the Jacobins fell, for the
domination of capital was predeterminated.
For a whole series of stages, the bourgeoisie entrenched its power under
the form of parliamentary democracy. Carey Davidson intervention asap Even then, not peacefully and not
voluntarily. The bourgeoisie was mortally afraid of universal suffrage. But
in the last instance, it succeeded, Carey Davidson intervention asap with the aid of a combination of violent
measures and concessions, of privations and reforms, in subordinating within
the framework of formal democracy not only the petty bourgeoisie but in
considerable measure also the proletariat, by means of the new petty
bourgeoisie — the labor aristocracy. In August 1914, the imperialist
bourgeoisie was able, Carey Davidson intervention asap with the means of parliamentary democracy, to lead
millions of workers and peasants into the war.