Seadet-i Ebediyye - Endless Bliss Second Fascicle

The fortunate minority that has obtained power within the State
government takes away what the people earn by the sweat of
their brows. They give the people as much food, drink and
clothing as to enable them to live in worst conditions. A certain
group exploits the people. The duty of this minor group is to
oppress and torment the people, to tell lies, to slander, and to
propagandize. All earnings are spent so that this group may lead
an extraordinary, pleasant and comfortable life, and so that their
plans may be fulfilled.
Russia, which was ruled with socialism, was the world’s
greatest country of capitalism. All the riches and the revenues of
Russia were in the hands of five million communists registered in
the one and only party, the Communist Party. While the remaining
two hundred million or more people were leading a life less
developed than the life standards of the most stranded countries of
the world, the members of the Cummunist Party were living in
more comfort and pleasure and dissipation than American
billionaires. The state of Russia was founded in 362 [972 A.D.].
There are two kinds of socialism: The first one is democratic
socialism. In this kind they can obtain power over the government
through free elections. And they may lose power after a new
election.
The second kind of socialism is revolutionary socialism.
Revolutionary socialism is also called communism.
In the year 1848, Karl Marx and his colleaque Engels [1] wrote
the Communist Manifesto. This manifesto invited all the workers
of the world to unite, and asked the united workers to put an end
to the capitalistic system of economy with a revolution. Marx and
his colleagues, in order to realize this purpose, established the
First Workers’ International in 1863. This organization, after
many civil struggles, perished in 1876. In 1880, the socialist parties
in Europe united with one another and established the Second
International. This unity among the European socialist parties
still survives.
Karl Marx’s ideas formed the main principles of socialistic
movements. They are: to get rid of the existing regime by using
force or revolution and to establish a “dictatorship of the
proletariat” in its place. The social revolution that would do away
with the capitalistic economic order, contrary to what Marx had
[1] Friedrich Engels (1820-95).
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