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Excerpt from The Batt-Dannenberg Debate: On Resolved, That by Political Action Alone, Without the Assistance of the Socialist Industrial Union, the Workers Can Emancipate Themselves; Held Under the Auspices of the Proletarian University of America at the Moose Temple, Detroit, Mich;, On April 20
We also find that the state was very useful to the capitalists in forcing the workers into the factories, especially in the early days in England, before they had gained full economic power. Engels tells us further that the decree of freedom of land in France by the rising bourgeoisie meant nothing but freedom from the land by the peasants of that time. They proceeded to force them off the land, after they had gained control of the political state, forcing them into the workshops, to serve the machines - to slave producing commodities for the capitalists.
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