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Population and Birth-Control: A Symposium. E-book. Formato PDF Eden Paul - Forgotten Books, 2017 -
In fact, in times such as these, the social worker, the advocate of reforms, is looked upon with impatience, with annoyance; he is considered more than merely a nuisance; he is looked upon as a menace, as an abomination that should be done away with. Nevertheless, all the scant courtesy, all the contumely notwithstanding, the man who believes that he is right, who feels that he has a mission to perform must continue to do his work, must persist in his duty as he sees it; he must deliver his message, even if, under certain circum stances, the message should seem to him a voice in the wilderness. These remarks apply with particular force to the subject of birth-control. When a nation has lost or is about to lose a million of its sons, physically the best specimens of manhood, then it listens with but ill-concealed or Open and angry impatience to the suggestion of limiting the number of offspring, of controlling the production of future war material. But we, who feel that reckless breeding with its resulting overpopulation and economic and moral misery is one of the causes Of war, must not halt in our propa ganda on the contrary, we must, if possible, intensify it. Even a voice in the wilderness is sometimes heard, and unwilling listeners do, now and then, become converted.
Proletcult: Proletarian Culture. E-book. Formato PDF Eden Paul - Forgotten Books, 2017 -
Aim, tendency, purpose, this is the leading feature of proletarian culture. Not education for education's sake but revolutionary educa tion, i.e., education for revolutionary ends. The origins Of this class-conscious and partisan edu cation are but new illustrations of the working of the forces which, in Marxist theory, are sum marised under the name of the materialist con ception of history. Developing industrial technique brings about a development of proletarian con sciousness. This gives rise to a proletarian cul ture, to Proletcult. And the first aim of Proletcult (in its prerevolutionary phase) is to Simplify, to concentrate, to discard everything which does not contribute to the growth of a fighting culture. Not general culture. Professedly unbiased, but a fighting culture, admittedly tendentious, is the avowed aim Of the revolutionary proletariat. Does this horrify the champions Of unbiased educa tion Nay, but we are ready, we are eager, to Offer a general apologia for tendency in science! We echo Bergson and say' We do not aim generally at knowledge for the sake of knowledge, but in order to take sides, to draw profit — in short, to satisfy an interest. (introduction to M eta physics, p.