James Connolly: Selected Writings by James Connolly & Peter Berresford-Ellis

Author:James Connolly & Peter Berresford-Ellis [Connolly, James & Berresford-Ellis, Peter]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Political Science, Political Ideologies, Communism; Post-Communism & Socialism
ISBN: 9780745302676
Google: TGwCEc2DyGgC
Publisher: Pluto Press
Published: 1988-10-31T00:00:00+00:00

Old Wine in New Bottles

First Published in New Age, 30 April 1914.

Republished as Part 3 of The Axe to the Root, Dublin 1921.

The latter text is that given here.

Transcription: The Workers’ Web ASCII Pamphlet Project.

HTML Mark-up: The Workers’ Web ASCII Pamphlet Project Einde O’Callaghan

for the Marxists’ Internet Archive.

Proofread by Chris Clayton, August 2007.

Scripture tells us in a very notable passage about the danger of putting new wine into old bottles. I propose to say a few words about the equally suicidal folly of putting old wine into new bottles. For I humbly submit that the experiment spoken of is very popular just now in the industrial world, has engaged the most earnest attention of most of the leaders of the working class, and received the practically unanimous endorsement of the Labour and Socialist Press. I have waited in vain for a word of protest.

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