岁月峥嵘,初心不改。中国共产党立志于中华民族千秋伟业,百年恰是风华正茂,在中国乃至世界的政治舞台上,谱写了一部部辉煌壮丽的历史诗篇。
百年风雨兼程,世纪沧桑巨变。为庆祝中国共产党成立100周年、向党的百年华诞献礼,翻译系学生党支部开展“言说党史”系列活动,旨在鞭策身为中华儿女的我们,不忘初心、牢记使命。在不断的学习和实践中,树立正确的世界观、人生观、价值观,一心一意跟着党走,为祖国贡献出自己的全部力量。
第六期是由翻译系学生党员沈深妹为大家朗读的《共产党宣言》第一章节内容,有关无产阶级是真正革命的阶级及无产阶级革命胜利必然性的论述部分。
Of all the classes that stand face to face with the bourgeoisie today, the proletariat alone is a really revolutionary class. The other classes decay and finally disappear in the face of Modern Industry; the proletariat is its special and essential product.
在当前同资产阶级对立的一切阶级中,只有无产阶级是真正革命的阶级。其余的阶级都随着大工业的发展而日趋没落和灭亡,无产阶级却是大工业本身的产物。
The lower middle class, the small manufacturer, the shopkeeper, the artisan, the peasant, all these fight against the bourgeoisie, to save from extinction their existence as fractions of the middle class. They are therefore not revolutionary, but conservative. Nay more, they are reactionary, for they try to roll back the wheel of history. If by chance, they are revolutionary, they are only so in view of their impending transfer into the proletariat; they thus defend not their present, but their future interests, they desert their own standpoint to place themselves at that of the proletariat.
中间等级,即小工业家、小商人、手工业者、农民,他们同资产阶级作斗争,都是为了维护他们这种中间等级的生存,以免于灭亡。所以,他们不是革命的,而是保守的。不仅如此,他们甚至是反动的,因为他们力图使历史的车轮倒转。如果说他们是革命的,那是鉴于他们行将转入无产阶级的队伍,这样,他们就不是维护他们目前的利益,而是维护他们将来的利益,他们就离开自己原来的立场,而站到无产阶级的立场上来。
The “dangerous class”, [lumpenproletariat] the social scum, that passively rotting mass thrown off by the lowest layers of the old society, may, here and there, be swept into the movement by a proletarian revolution; its conditions of life, however, prepare it far more for the part of a bribed tool of reactionary intrigue.
流氓无产阶级是旧社会最下层中消极的腐化的部分,他们在一些地方也被无产阶级革命卷到运动里来,但是,由于他们的整个生活状况,他们更甘心于被人收买,去干反动的勾当。
In the condition of the proletariat, those of old society at large are already virtually swamped. The proletarian is without property; his relation to his wife and children has no longer anything in common with the bourgeois family relations; modern industry labour, modern subjection to capital, the same in England as in France, in America as in Germany, has stripped him of every trace of national character. Law, morality, religion, are to him so many bourgeois prejudices, behind which lurk in ambush just as many bourgeois interests.
在无产阶级的生活条件中,旧社会的生活条件已经被消灭了。无产者是没有财产的;他们和妻子儿女的关系同资产阶级的家庭关系再没有任何共同之处了;现代的工业劳动,现代的资本压迫,无论在英国或法国,无论在美国或德国,都有是一样的,都使无产者失去了任何民族性。法律、道德、宗教在他们看来全都是资产阶级偏见,隐藏在这些偏见后面的全都是资产阶级利益。
All the preceding classes that got the upper hand sought to fortify their already acquired status by subjecting society at large to their conditions of appropriation. The proletarians cannot become masters of the productive forces of society, except by abolishing their own previous mode of appropriation, and thereby also every other previous mode of appropriation. They have nothing of their own to secure and to fortify; their mission is to destroy all previous securities for, and insurances of, individual property.
过去一切阶级在争得统治之后,总是使整个社会服从于它们发财致富的条件,企图以此来巩固它们已获得的生活地位。无产者只有废除自己的现存的占有方式,从而废除全部现存的占有方式,才能取得社会生产力。无产者没有什么自己的东西必须加以保护,他们必须摧毁至今保护和保障私有财产的一切。
All previous historical movements were movements of minorities, or in the interest of minorities. The proletarian movement is the self-conscious, independent movement of the immense majority, in the interest of the immense majority. The proletariat, the lowest stratum of our present society, cannot stir, cannot raise itself up, without the whole superincumbent strata of official society being sprung into the air.
过去的一切运动都是少数人的或者为少数人谋利益的运动。无产阶级的运动是绝大多数人的、为绝大多数人谋利益的独立的运动。无产阶级,现今社会的最下层,如果不炸毁构成官方社会的整个上层,就不能抬起头来,挺起胸来。
Though not in substance, yet in form, the struggle of the proletariat with the bourgeoisie is at first a national struggle. The proletariat of each country must, of course, first of all settle matters with its own bourgeoisie.
如果不就内容而就形式来说,无产阶级反对资产阶级的斗争首先是一国范围内的斗争。每一个国家的无产阶级当然首先应该打倒本国的资产阶级。
In depicting the most general phases of the development of the proletariat, we traced the more or less veiled civil war, raging within existing society, up to the point where that war breaks out into open revolution, and where the violent overthrow of the bourgeoisie lays the foundation for the sway of the proletariat.
在叙述无产阶级发展的最一般的阶段的时候,我们循序探讨了现存社会内部或多或少隐蔽着的国内战争,直到这个战争爆发为公开的革命,无产阶级用暴力推翻资产阶级而建立自己的统治。
Hitherto, every form of society has been based, as we have already seen, on the antagonism of oppressing and oppressed classes. But in order to oppress a class, certain conditions must be assured to it under which it can, at least, continue its slavish existence. The serf, in the period of serfdom, raised himself to membership in the commune, just as the petty bourgeois, under the yoke of the feudal absolutism, managed to develop into a bourgeois. The modern labourer, on the contrary, instead of rising with the process of industry, sinks deeper and deeper below the conditions of existence of his own class. He becomes a pauper, and pauperism develops more rapidly than population and wealth. And here it becomes evident, that the bourgeoisie is unfit any longer to be the ruling class in society, and to impose its conditions of existence upon society as an over-riding law. It is unfit to rule because it is incompetent to assure an existence to its slave within his slavery, because it cannot help letting him sink into such a state, that it has to feed him, instead of being fed by him. Society can no longer live under this bourgeoisie, in other words, its existence is no longer compatible with society.
我们已经看到,至今的一切社会都是建立在压迫阶级和被压迫阶级的对立之上的。但是,为了有可能压迫一个阶级,就必须保证这个阶级至少有能够勉强维持它的奴隶般的生存的条件。农奴曾经在农奴制度下挣扎到公社成员的地位,小资产者曾经在封建专制制度的束缚下挣扎到资产者的地位。现代的工人却相反,他们并不是随着工业的进步而上升,而是越来越降到本阶级的生存条件以下。工人变成赤贫者,贫困比人口和财富增长得还要快。由此可以明显地看出,资产阶级再不能做社会的统治阶级了,再不能把自己阶级的生存条件当作支配一切的规律强加于社会了。资产阶级不能统治下去了,因为它甚至不能保证自己的奴隶维持奴隶的生活,因为它不得不让自己的奴隶落到不能养活它反而要它来养活的地步。社会再不能在它统治下生存下去了,就是说,它的生存不再同社会相容了。
The essential conditions for the existence and for the sway of the bourgeois class is the formation and augmentation of capital; the condition for capital is wage-labour. Wage-labour rests exclusively on competition between the labourers. The advance of industry, whose involuntary promoter is the bourgeoisie, replaces the isolation of the labourers, due to competition, by the revolutionary combination, due to association. The development of Modern Industry, therefore, cuts from under its feet the very foundation on which the bourgeoisie produces and appropriates products. What the bourgeoisie therefore produces, above all, are its own grave-diggers. Its fall and the victory of the proletariat are equally inevitable.
资产阶级生存和统治的根本条件,是财富在私人手里的积累,是资本的形成和增殖;资本的条件是雇佣劳动。雇佣劳动完全是建立在工人的自相竞争之上的。资产阶级无意中造成而又无力抵抗的工业进步,使工人通过结社而达到的革命联合代替了他们由于竞争而造成的分散状态。于是,随着大工业的发展,资产阶级赖以生产和占有产品的基础本身也就从它的脚下被挖掉了。它首先生产的是它自身的掘墓人。资产阶级的灭亡和无产阶级的胜利是同样不可避免的。
作者:沈深妹