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Show BY KANTSKY. The followlns; quotation Is taken from his "Social Revolution." "Tho analogy between birth and revolution, rev-olution, however, does not rest alono upon the suddenness of the act. If we look closer we shall find that this Buddn transformation at birth Is confined con-fined wholly to functions. The or pans develop slowly, and must reach a certain stage of development before that leap In rouble, which suddenly plves them their new functions. If that leap takes place before this stage of development Is attained, the result Is not the beginning of new f uncr Ions for the organs, but the cessation ces-sation of all functions tho death of the new creature. On the other hand, the blow development of organs In the body of the ronther can only proceed to a certain point, they cannot begin ttarlr new functions without the revolutionary revolu-tionary act of birth. Comparison. "Wc find the same thing In 60cl-My, 60cl-My, Here also the revolutions aro the result of slow, gradual development develop-ment (evolution.) Here also It Is tho social organs that develop slowly. That which may be changed suddenly, at a leap, revolutionary, Is their functions func-tions The railroad has been slowly developed. On the other hand, the railroad can suddenly be transformed from Its function as the Instrument lo the enrichment of anumber of capitalists. capi-talists. Into a Socialist enterprise having hav-ing as Its function the serving of tho common good And as at the birth of the child, all the functions are simultaneously si-multaneously revolutionized circulation, circula-tion, breathing, digestion so all the functions of the railroad must be si multaneou8ly revolutionized at one stroke, for they are all most closely bound together. They cannot be gradually grad-ually and successively socialized, one after another, as if, for example, we would transform today the functions of the engineer and fireman, a few years later the ticket agents, and still later the accountants and bookkeepers, bookkeep-ers, and so on. This fact Is perfectly clear with a railroad, but the successive success-ive socialization of the different functions func-tions of a railroad is no less absurd I than that of the ministry of a centralized central-ized state. Such a ministry constitutes a single organism whose organs must co-operate. The functions of one of theae organs cannot be modified without with-out equally modifying all the others. The Idea of the gradual conquest of the various departments of a ministry minis-try by the Socialist 16 not less absurd than would be an attempt to divide tho act of birth Into a number of consecutive con-secutive monthly acts, In each of I which one organ only would bo trans-' trans-' formed from the condition of a fetus concluijf tbat as t-ai-h animal cn-a-turn rxjust at on- H m t;o thf'Uh K catastrophe In orlor t- reach a hljrb-r hljrb-r stan of dcvclopnifnt i tb art .it klrth or of tho brakiif; of a the!!). o toclty caa only bo raiuM t0 a Llgher ttq-,.. of Jo..opmfnt through a calailtrophc'. to an indejic-ndf ut clilU. and Tncaa-1 whllo having thv child Itself attached I to tlio navel cord until it had learned tn walk and talk. i People Not Profits. I "Sinr, neither a railroad nor a mla-1 iKtry can bo chan'd yrftdually, but j only at a sinirlr stroke, embracing all the nrgans simultaneously, from capitalist cap-italist to Socialist functions, froro an I organ of tl capitalist to an organ of tli' laborltiR clas, and this transformation trans-formation Jb possible oolj to 6uch io-cial io-cial organs as attain a certain degree of development, it may b reuiarkei bere that with the material organism It Is possible to scientifically determine deter-mine the moment when the degree of ! maturity Is attained, which is not true of society. "On the other band, birth does not I mark tb.? conclusion of the develop incut ol the human organism, h'H tattler the Leaning of a ne epoch in development ... In the same ay, a social revolution Ih not tho conclusion of focIoI development bit the beginning of a new f.rui cf 1-velopmcnl. 1-velopmcnl. It lo thus apparent that the analogy between birth and revolution Is rather far reichla,-. . . . We can go no further upon th ground of such analogies than to |
