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《共产党宣言》英文版师生共读活动开启

2022.05.17

2022年是进入全面建设社会主义现代化国家,向第二个百年奋斗目标进军新征程的重要一年,也是中央和国家机关党的建设“巩固深化年”。在第一个一百年中,中国共产党发展壮大,中国人民在中国共产党的正确领导下继往开来、不断奋斗,创造出了一个又一个的人间奇迹,书写出了一个又一个的光辉成就。

习近平总书记在纪念马克思诞辰200周年大会上曾说道:《共产党宣言》是“共产党人的必修课”。为认真学习贯彻习近平总书记重要讲话精神,引导我院青年学子进一步坚定马克思主义信仰,坚定理想信念,不忘初心、牢记使命,热情讴歌中国共产党领导中国革命和建设取得的伟大成就,团结引导广大青年了解党、热爱党、心向党,国际学院党总支特开展“有声党课”——师生共读《共产党宣言》活动。


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学生会主席蒋宇琨朗读《共产党宣言》英文版选段


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 Czar, 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 societies 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 re-constitution 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 distinctive feature: it has simplified the 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 colonisation 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.



一个幽灵,共产主义的幽灵,在欧洲游荡。

为了对这个幽灵进行神圣的围剿,旧欧洲的一切势力,教皇和沙皇、梅特涅和基佐、法国的激进派和德国的警察,都联合起来了。

有哪一个反对党不被它的当政的敌人骂为共产党呢?又有哪一个反对党不拿共产主义这个罪名去回敬更进步的反对党人和自己的反动敌人呢?

从这一事实中可以得出两个结论:

共产主义已经被欧洲的一切势力公认为一种势力;

现在是共产党人向全世界公开说明自己的观点、自己的目的、自己的意图并且拿党自己的宣言来反驳关于共产主义幽灵的神话的时候了。

为了这个目的,各国共产党人集会于伦敦,拟定了如下的宣言,用英文、法文、德文、意大利文、弗拉芒文和丹麦文公布于世。


一、资产者和无产者

至今一切社会的历史都是阶级斗争的历史。

自由民和奴隶、贵族和平民、领主和农奴、行会师傅和帮工,一句话,压迫者和被压迫 者,始终处于相互对立的地位,进行不断的、有时隐蔽有时公开的斗争,而每一次斗争的结局都是整个社会受到革命改造或者斗争的各阶级同归于尽。

在过去的各个历史时代,我们几乎到处都可以看到社会完全划分为各个不同的等级,看到社会地位分成多种多样的层次。在古罗马,有贵族、骑士、平民、奴隶,在中世纪,有封建主、臣仆、行会师傅、帮工、农奴,而且几乎在每一个阶级内部又有一些特殊的阶层。

从封建社会的灭亡中产生出来的现代资产阶级社会并没有消灭阶级对立。它只是用新的阶级、新的压迫条件、新的斗争形式代替了旧的。

但是,我们的时代,资产阶级时代,却有一个特点:它使阶级对立简单化了。整个社会日益分裂为两大敌对的阵营,分裂为两大相互直接对立的阶级:资产阶级和无产阶级。

从中世纪的农奴中产生了初期城市的城关市民;从这个市民等级中发展出最初的资产阶级分子。

美洲的发现、绕过非洲的航行,给新兴的资产阶级开辟了新天地。东印度和中国的市场、美洲的殖民化、对殖民地的贸易、交换手段和一般商品的增加,使商业、航海业和工业空前高涨,因而使正在崩溃的封建社会内部的革命因素迅速发展。


分团委副书记王训诚朗读《共产党宣言》英文版选段


The feudal system of industry, under which industrial production was monopolised 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 manufacture no longer sufficed. Thereupon, steam and machinery revolutionised 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 whole industrial armies, the modern bourgeois.

 

Modern industry has established the world-market, for which the discovery of America paved the way. This market has given an immense development to commerce, to navigation, to communication by land. This development has, in its time, reacted on the extension of industry; and in proportion as industry, commerce, navigation, railways extended, in the same proportion the bourgeoisie developed, increased its capital, and pushed into the background every class handed down from the Middle Ages.

 

We see, therefore, how the modern bourgeoisie is itself the product of a long course of development, of a series of revolutions in the modes of production and of exchange.

 

Each step in the development of the bourgeoisie was accompanied by a corresponding political advance of that class. An oppressed class under the sway of the feudal nobility, an armed and self-governing association in the mediaeval commune; here independent urban republic (as in Italy and Germany), there taxable third estate of the monarchy (as in France), afterwards, in the period of manufacture proper, serving either the semi-feudal or the absolute monarchy as a counterpoise against the nobility, 

and, in fact, corner-stone of the great monarchies in general, the bourgeoisie has at last, since the establishment of Modern Industry and of the world-market, conquered for itself, in the modern representative State, exclusive political sway. The executive of the modern State is but a committee for managing the common affairs of the whole bourgeoisie.

 

The bourgeoisie, historically, has played a most revolutionary part.

 

The bourgeoisie, wherever it has got the upper hand, has put an end to all feudal, patriarchal, idyllic relations. It has pitilessly torn asunder the motley feudal ties that bound man to his natural superiors, and has left remaining no other nexus between man and man than naked self-interest, than callous cash payment. It has drowned the most heavenly ecstasies of religious fervour, of chivalrous enthusiasm, of philistine sentimentalism, in the icy water of egotistical calculation. It has resolved personal worth into exchange value, and in place of the numberless and indefeasible chartered freedoms, has set up that single, unconscionable freedom—Free Trade. In one word, for exploitation, veiled by religious and political illusions, naked, shameless, direct, brutal exploitation.


以前那种封建的或行会的工业经营方式已经不能满足随着新市场的出现而增加的需求了。工场手工业代替了这种经营方式。行会师傅被工业的中间等级排挤掉了;各种行业组织之间的分工随着各个作坊内部的分工的出现而消失了。

但是,市场总是在扩大,需求总是在增加。甚至工场手工业也不再能满足需要了。于是,蒸汽和机器引起了工业生产的革命。现代大工业代替了工场手工业;工业中的百万富翁,一支一支产业大军的首领,现代资产者,代替了工业的中间等级。

大工业建立了由美洲的发现所准备好的世界市场。世界市场使商业、航海业和陆路交通得到了巨大的发展。这种发展又反过来促进了工业的扩展。同时,随着工业、商业、航海业和铁路的扩展,资产阶级也在同一程度上得到发展,增加自己的资本,把中世纪遗留下来的一切阶级排挤到后面去。

由此可见,现代资产阶级本身是一个长期发展过程的产物,是生产方式和交换方式的一系列变革的产物。

资产阶级的这种发展的每一个阶段,都伴随着相应的政治上的进展。它在封建主统治下是被压迫的等级,在公社里是武装的和自治的团体,在一些地方组成独立的城市共和国,在另一些地方组成君主国中的纳税的第三等级;后来,在工场手工业时期,它是等级君主国或专制君主国中同贵族抗衡的势力,而且是大君主国的主要基础;最后,从大工业和世界市场建立的时候起,它在现代的代议制国家里夺得了独占的政治统治。现代的国家政权不过是管理整个资产阶级的共同事务的委员会罢了。

资产阶级在历史上曾经起过非常革命的作用。

资产阶级在它已经取得了统治的地方把一切封建的、宗法的和田园般的关系都破坏了。它无情地斩断了把人们束缚于天然尊长的形形色色的封建羁绊,它使人和人之间除了赤裸裸的利害关系,除了冷酷无情的“现金交易”,就再也没有任何别的联系了。它把宗教虔诚、骑士热忱、小市民伤感这些情感的神圣发作,淹没在利己主义打算的冰水之中。它把人的尊严变成了交换价值,用一种没有良心的贸易自由代替了无数特许的和自力挣得的自由。总而言之,它用公开的、无耻的、直接的、露骨的剥削代替了由宗教幻想和政治幻想掩盖着的剥削。



学生党员刘晓蕾朗读《共产党宣言》英文版选段



The bourgeoisie has stripped of its halo every occupation hitherto honoured and looked up to with reverent awe. It has converted the physician, the lawyer, the priest, the poet, the man of science, into its paid wage labourers.


The bourgeoisie has torn away from the family its sentimental veil, and has reduced the family relation to a mere money relation.


The bourgeoisie has disclosed how it came to pass that the brutal display of vigour in the Middle Ages, which Reactionists so much admire, found its fitting 


The bourgeoisie has torn away from the family its sentimental veil, and has reduced the family relation to a mere money relation.


The bourgeoisie has disclosed how it came to pass that the brutal display of vigour in the Middle Ages, which Reactionists so much admire, found its fitting 


The bourgeoisie has torn away from the family its sentimental veil, and has reduced the family relation to a mere money relation.


The bourgeoisie has disclosed how it came to pass that the brutal display of vigour in the Middle Ages, which Reactionists so much admire, found its fitting 

complement in the most slothful indolence. It has been the first to show what man's activity can bring about. It has accomplished wonders far surpassing Egyptian pyramids, Roman aqueducts, and Gothic cathedrals; it has conducted expeditions that put in the shade all former Exoduses of nations and crusades.


The bourgeoisie cannot exist without constantly revolutionising the instruments of production, and thereby the relations of production, and with them the whole relations of society. Conservation of the old modes of production in unaltered form, was, on the contrary, the first condition of existence for all earlier industrial classes. Constant revolutionising of production, uninterrupted disturbance of all social conditions, everlasting uncertainty and agitation distinguish the bourgeois epoch from all earlier ones. All fixed, fast-frozen relations, with their train of ancient and venerable prejudices and opinions, are swept away, all new-formed ones become antiquated before they can ossify. All that is solid melts into air, all that is holy is profaned, and man is at last compelled to face with sober senses, his real conditions of life, and his relations with his kind.


The need of a constantly expanding market for its products chases the bourgeoisie over the whole surface of the globe. It must nestle everywhere, settle everywhere, establish connexions everywhere.


The bourgeoisie has through its exploitation of the world-market given a cosmopolitan character to production and consumption in every country. To the great chagrin of Reactionists, it has drawn from under the feet of industry the national ground on which it stood. All old-established national industries have been destroyed or are daily being destroyed. They are dislodged by new industries, whose introduction becomes a life and death question for all civilised nations, by industries that no longer work up indigenous raw material, but raw material drawn from the remotest zones; industries whose products are consumed, not only at home, but in every quarter of the globe. In place of the old wants, satisfied by the productions of the country, we find new wants, requiring for their satisfaction the products of distant lands and climes. In place of the old local and national seclusion and self-sufficiency, we have intercourse in every direction, universal inter-dependence of nations. And as in material, so also in intellectual production. The intellectual creations of individual nations become common property. National one-sidedness and narrow-mindedness become more and more impossible, and from the numerous national and local literatures, there arises a world literature.

资产阶级抹去了一切向来受人尊崇和令人敬畏的职业的神圣光环。它把医生、律师、教士、诗人和学者变成了它出钱招雇的雇佣劳动者。

  资产阶级撕下了罩在家庭关系上的温情脉脉的面纱,把这种关系变成了纯粹的金钱关系。资产阶级揭示了,在中世纪深受反动派称许的那种人力的野蛮使用,是以极端怠惰作为相应补充的。它第一个证明了,人的活动能够取得什么样的成就。它创造了完全不同于埃及金字塔、罗马水道和哥特式教堂的奇迹;它完成了完全不同于民族大迁徙和十字军征讨的远征。

  资产阶级除非对生产工具,从而对生产关系,从而对全部社会关系不断地进行革命,否则就不能生存下去。反之,原封不动地保持旧的生产方式,却是过去的一切工业阶级生存的首要条件。生产的不断变革,一切社会状况不停的动荡,永远的不安定和变动,这就是资产阶级时代不同于过去一切时代的地方。一切固定的僵化的关系以及与之相适应的素被尊崇的观念和见解都被消除了,一切新形成的关系等不到固定下来就陈旧了。一切等级的和固定的东西都烟消云散了,一切神圣的东西都被亵渎了。人们终于不得不用冷静的眼光来看他们的生活地位、他们的相互关系。

  不断扩大产品销路的需要,驱使资产阶级奔走于全球各地。它必须到处落户,到处开发,到处建立联系。

  资产阶级,由于开拓了世界市场,使一切国家的生产和消费都成为世界性的了。使反动派大为惋惜的是,资产阶级挖掉了工业脚下的民族基础。古老的民族工业被消灭了,并且每天都还在被消灭。它们被新的工业排挤掉了,新的工业的建立已经成为一切文明民族的生命攸关的问题;这些工业所加工的,已经不是本地的原料,而是来自极其遥远的地区的原料;它们的产品不仅供本国消费,而且同时供世界各地消费。旧的、靠本国产品来满足的需要,被新的、要靠极其遥远的国家和地带的产品来满足的需要所代替了。过去那种地方的和民族的自给自足和闭关自守状态,被各民族的各方面的互相往来和各方面的互相依赖所代替了。物质的生产是如此,精神的生产也是如此。各民族的精神产品成了公共的财产。民族的片面性和局限性日益成为不可能,于是由许多种民族的和地方的文学形成了一种世界的文学。


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