Assassin's Creed: Syndicate (2015 Video Game)

Matthew Marsh: Karl Marx

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• Karl Marx : Workers, Comrades. Thank you for your most generous welcome. I come before you today with a heavy heart. England stands at the head of commercial and industrial Europe. In the last two decades there has been an unheard of development of industry and unprecedented increase in exports and imports. While these are facts to be celebrated by the provident classes, for the workers very little has changed. You well know under what conditions of shattered health, damaged morals and spiritual ruin this increase of wealth and power was produced for the upper classes, by the working class. It has become a truce that no perfecting of machinery, no application of science to industry, no improvement on the means of communication, no new colonies, no immigration, no opening out of new markets, no free trade and not all these things put together can do away with the misery of the toiling masses. But rather, on the contrary, that upon the present false basis, every new development of the productive power of labour must lead to the widening of the gap between the classes and to the heightening of social antagonisms. During this epoch of economic progress, death from starvation has raised itself almost to the rank of a social institution, here in London, the capital of the British Empire. In the annals of world history, this age will be characterized by the more impetuous force, the more expanded range and the deadlier effects of the social plague known as the commercial and industrial crisis. I believe that it is not necessary that the means of labour should be monopolized as a means of dominating the workers and exploiting them. That just like slavery and serfdom, so also wage labour is only a transitory subordinate social form, which is destined to vanish before associated labour, which will accomplish its work with willing hands, vigorous mind and cheerful heart. It has been said that the House of Commons is a House of Landlords. I put it to you today, that to capture political power is now the great duty of the working class! We must attempt the political reorganization of the workers if we are to improve their lot. The workers must go forward in a united fashion, with the simultaneous demand that the simple laws of morality and justice, which are considered right in the relations of private persons, shall be recognized as the supreme law governing labour in this country! The struggle for such a policy is embraced in the universal struggle for the emancipation of the working class. And so I say to you, proletarians of all lands: Unite!