I. Labor is the source of all riches and of all culture. As general profitable labor can only be done by the human society, the whole product of labor belongs to society—i.e., to all its members—who have the same duties and the same right to work, each according to his reasonable wants. In the present society the means of work are the monopoly of the class of capitalists. The class of workingmen thus become dependent on them, and consequently are given over to all degrees of misery and servitude. In order to emancipate labor it is requisite that the means of work be transformed into the common property of society, that all production be regulated by associations, and that the entire product of labor be turned over to society and justly distributed for the benefit of all. None but the working-class itself can emancipate labor, as in relation to it all other classes are only a reactionary mass. II. Led by these principles, the German Social Workingmen’s party, by all legal means, strives for a free state and society, the breaking down of the iron laws of wages by abolishing the system of hired workingmen, by abolishing exploitation in every shape, and doing away with all social and political inequality. The German Social Workingmen’s party, although first working within its national confines, is fully conscious of the international character of the general workingmen’s movement, and is resolved to fulfill all duties which it imposes on each workingman in order to realize the fraternity of all men. The German Social Workingmen’s party, for the purpose of preparing the way, and for the solution of the social problem, demands the creation of social productive associations, to be supported by the state government, and under the control of the working-people. The productive associations are to be founded in such numbers that the social organization of the whole production can be effected by them. The German Social Workingmen’s party requires as the basis of state government: 1. Universal, equal, direct, and secret suffrage, which, beginning with the twentieth year, obliges all citizens to vote in all State, county, and town elections. Election-day must be a Sunday or a holiday. 2. Direct legislation by the people; decision as to war and peace by the people. 3. General capability of bearing arms; popular defense in place of standing armies. 4. Abolition of all exceptional laws, especially those relating to the press, public meetings, and associations—in short, of all laws which hinder the free expression of ideas and thought. 5. Gratuitous administration of justice by the people.