A spectre is haunting Europe—the spectre of communism. All the powers of old Europe have entered into a holy alliance to exorcise this spectre: Pope and Tsar, Metternich and Guizot, French Radicals and German police-spies.
Where is the party in opposition that has not been decried as communistic by its opponents in power? Where is the opposition that has not hurled back the branding reproach of communism, against the more advanced opposition parties, as well as against its reactionary adversaries?
Two things result from this fact:
I. Communism is already acknowledged by all European powers to be itself a power.
II.It is high time that Communists should openly, in the face of the whole world, publish their views, their aims, their tendencies, and meet this nursery tale of the spectre of communism with a manifesto of the party itself.
To this end, Communists of various nationalities have assembled in London and sketched the following manifesto, to be published in the English,French, German, Italian, Flemish and Danish languages.
I. Bourgeois and Proletarians
The history of all hitherto existing society is the history of class struggles.
Freeman and slave, patrician and plebeian, lord and serf, guild-master and journeyman, in a word, oppressor and oppressed, stood in constant opposition to one another, carried on an uninterrupted, now hidden, now open fight, a fight that each time ended, either in a revolutionary reconstitution of society at large, or in the common ruin of the contending classes.
In the earlier epochs of history, we find almost everywhere a complicated arrangement of society into various orders,
a manifold gradation of social rank. In ancient Rome we have patricians, knights, plebeians, slaves; in the Middle Ages, feudal lords, vassals, guild-masters, journeymen, apprentices, serfs; in almost all of these classes, again, subordinate gradations.
The modern bourgeois society that has sprouted from the ruins of feudal society has not done away with class antagonisms. It has but established new classes, new conditions of oppression, new forms of struggle in place of the old ones.
Our epoch, the epoch of the bourgeoisie, possesses, however, this distinct feature: it has simplified class antagonisms. Society as a whole is more and more splitting up into two great hostile camps, into two great classes directly facing each other—bourgeoisie and proletariat.
From the serfs of the Middle Ages sprang the chartered burghers of the earliest towns. From these burgesses the first elements of the bourgeoisie were developed.
The discovery of America, the rounding of the Cape, opened up fresh ground for the rising bourgeoisie. The East-Indian and Chinese markets, the colonization of America, trade with the colonies, the increase in the means of exchange and in commodities generally, gave to commerce, to navigation, to industry, an impulse never before known, and thereby, to the revolutionary element in the tottering feudal society, a rapid development.
The feudal system of industry, in which industrial production was monopolized by closed guilds, now no longer sufficed for the growing wants of the new markets. The manufacturing system took its place. The guild-masters were pushed on one side by the manufacturing middle class; division of labour between the different corporate guilds vanished in the face of division of labour in each single workshop.
Meantime the markets kept ever growing, the demand ever rising. Even manufacturers no longer sufficed. Thereupon,steam and machinery revolutionized industrial production. The place of manufacture was taken by the giant, Modern Industry; the place of the industrial middle class by industrial millionaires, the leaders of the whole industrial armies, the modern bourgeois.
(Marx&Engels,1969:14-15; Tr./Moore)
有一個(gè)怪物,在歐洲徘徊著,這怪物就是共產(chǎn)主義。舊歐洲有權(quán)力的人都因?yàn)橐?qū)除這怪物,加入了神圣同盟。羅馬法王,俄國(guó)皇帝,梅特涅,基佐(Guizot),法國(guó)急進(jìn)黨,德國(guó)偵探,都在這里面。
那些在野的政黨,有不被在朝的政敵,誣作共產(chǎn)主義的嗎?那些在野的政黨,對(duì)于其他更急進(jìn)的在野黨,對(duì)于保守的政黨,不都是用共產(chǎn)主義這名詞作回罵的套語(yǔ)嗎?
由這種事 實(shí)可以看出兩件事:
共產(chǎn)主義,已經(jīng)被全歐洲有權(quán)力的人認(rèn)作一種有權(quán)力的東西。
共產(chǎn)黨員,已經(jīng)有了時(shí)機(jī)可以公然在全世界底面前,用自己黨底宣言發(fā)表自己的意見(jiàn),目的,趨向,并對(duì)抗關(guān)于共產(chǎn)主義這怪物底無(wú)稽之談。
為了這緣故,各國(guó)共產(chǎn)黨員便在倫敦開(kāi)了個(gè)會(huì),草了下列的宣言,用英、法、德、意、弗蘭德、丹麥各國(guó)底語(yǔ)言,公布于世界。
有產(chǎn)者及無(wú)產(chǎn)者
一切過(guò)去社會(huì)底歷史,都是階級(jí)爭(zhēng)斗底歷史。
自由民(Freeman)和奴隸(Slave),貴族(Patrician)和平民(Plebeian),領(lǐng)主(Lord)和農(nóng)奴(Serf),行東(Guild-master)和傭工(Journey-man),總而言之,就是壓迫階級(jí)和被壓迫階級(jí),從古到今,沒(méi)有不站在反對(duì)的地位,繼續(xù)著明爭(zhēng)暗斗。每次爭(zhēng)斗底結(jié)局,不是社會(huì)全體革命的新建設(shè)告成,便是交戰(zhàn)的兩階級(jí)并倒。
我們略看前代的歷史,便會(huì)曉得無(wú)論何處都是組織復(fù)雜的社會(huì)里分出各種階級(jí),社會(huì)的地位分出各種等級(jí)。在古代羅馬有貴族,騎士(Knight),平民,奴隸;在中世紀(jì),有封建領(lǐng)主,家臣(Vassal),行東,傭工,徒弟(Apprentice)和農(nóng)奴;這些階級(jí)里,又隸屬許多等級(jí)
從封建社會(huì)底廢墟上發(fā)生的近代有產(chǎn)社會(huì),也免不了有階級(jí)對(duì)抗;不過(guò)造出新的階級(jí),新的壓迫手段,新的爭(zhēng)斗形式,來(lái)代替那舊的罷了。
我們的時(shí)代,就是這有產(chǎn)階級(jí)(Bourgeoisie)時(shí)代,他的特色就是把階級(jí)對(duì)抗弄簡(jiǎn)單了。社會(huì)全體現(xiàn)已漸次分裂成為對(duì)壘的兩大營(yíng)寨,互相敵視的兩大階級(jí):這就是有產(chǎn)階級(jí)和無(wú)產(chǎn)階級(jí)。
由中世紀(jì)底農(nóng)奴里面,曾發(fā)生一種最初都市底特許市民;這些市民,便是有產(chǎn)階級(jí)最初的種子。
嗣后,美洲底發(fā)現(xiàn),好望角底周航,新添給有產(chǎn)階級(jí)一些發(fā)展地:東印度和中華底市場(chǎng),美洲底殖民,殖民地底貿(mào)易,交換機(jī)關(guān)和物品底增多,又都使當(dāng)時(shí)的商業(yè)航海業(yè),和制造工業(yè),受一種空前的刺激;因此,那革命種子便在頹廢的封建社會(huì)里急激的發(fā)展了。
在封建時(shí)代的工業(yè)組織底下,生產(chǎn)實(shí)業(yè)是由同行組合一手把持的,到了這時(shí),便不能應(yīng)付新市場(chǎng)上需要底增加了;于是手工工場(chǎng) 組織(Manufacturing system)便占了他的地位。各業(yè)行東被工場(chǎng)制造家這種中等階級(jí)擠倒;聯(lián)合的各行組合間底分工,也就讓各個(gè)工場(chǎng)底分工替代了。
接著市場(chǎng)一天比一天擴(kuò)大,需要又一天比一天增加;這時(shí)手工工場(chǎng)組織,也不能應(yīng)付了。于是又有蒸汽及大機(jī)器出來(lái)演了一場(chǎng)生產(chǎn)事業(yè)底革命。從此,大規(guī)模的“近代產(chǎn)業(yè)”,便取了手工工業(yè)底地位;豪富的實(shí)業(yè)家,產(chǎn)業(yè)軍底總首領(lǐng),近代的有產(chǎn)階級(jí),便把產(chǎn)業(yè)界的中等階級(jí)降服了。
(陳望道譯,2009:005-007)
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