| "The revolution by which the working class will win freedom, is
not a single event of limited duration. It is a process of organization,
of self-education, in which the workers gradually, now in progressing rise,
then in steps and leaps, develop the force to vanquish the bourgeoisie,
to destroy capitalism, and to build up their new system of collective production.
This process will fill up an epoch in history of unknown length, on the
verge of which we are now standing. Though the details of its course cannot
be foreseen, some of its conditions and circumstances may be subject to
discussion now...
The insight needed can not be obtained as instruction of an ignorant
mass by learned teachers, possessors of science, as the pouring of knowledge
into passive pupils. It can only be acquired by self-education by the strenuous
self-activity that strains the brain in fell desire to understand the world.
It would be very easy for the working class if it had only to accept established
truth from those who know it . But the truth they need does not exists
anywhere in the world outside them; they must build it up for themselves.
Also what is given here does not pretend to be established final truth
to be learned by heart. it is a system of ideas won by the attentive experience
of society and the workers' movement, formulated to induce others to think
over and to discuss the problems of work and its organization. There are
hundreds of thinkers to open new viewpoints, there are thousands of intelligent
workers who, once they give there attention to them, are able, from there
intimate knowledge to conceive better and in more detail the organization
of their fight and the organization of their work. What is said here may
be the spark that kindles the fire in their minds." - Anton Pannekoek
"For us, the development of theoretical views is dictated by the
necessities of vital life, by the need to solve practical problems. Our
theoretical views must lead to new, better, more suitable action and the
mastering of practical tasks. Our theory has value only insofar as it confirmed
by practice. Everything else, we leave to the intellectual jugglers, to
the guardians of the hierarchy of "values." - Wilhelm Reich |
